Eight weeks. That’s how long you’ve got before Microsoft wipes out your saved passwords. The tech giant just confirmed that its wildly popular Microsoft Authenticator app—used by over 75 million people worldwide—is losing its password management features.
If you’ve been relying on it to autofill your logins, store payment info, or keep track of those ultra-complex 32-character keys you created in a caffeine-fueled panic at 2 am, we have bad news: the clock’s ticking. And the drama is only beginning.
The Timeline of Doom
Microsoft’s phase-out plan is ruthless:
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June 1, 2025: You can no longer save new passwords in the app.
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July 1, 2025: Autofill dies. Your stored credit card info? Deleted.
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August 1, 2025: All your saved passwords vanish—permanently.
No exports. No migration wizard. Just a cold splash screen telling you to install Microsoft Edge.
From Trust to Trouble
For years, Authenticator has been the quiet hero in Microsoft’s security arsenal. Tied tightly to your Outlook 365 and Windows logins, it’s been storing passwords, securing 2FA codes, and autofilling details across apps. Now, that functionality is being unceremoniously yanked away.
Why? Because Microsoft wants you in its ecosystem. Not just using its services, but its browser.
This Isn’t About Passwords—It’s About Power
Microsoft is using the death of the password as a strategic wedge to force user migration from mobile platforms to desktop territory—specifically, to Edge, its browser with a dismal 5.2% global share.
It’s no coincidence that:
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Authenticator now shows a big “Turn on Edge” splash screen.
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Password features will only continue in Microsoft Edge, not in Authenticator or any other application.
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You’re being told to manually re-enter your payment details. No automatic transfer. Why? Because that friction nudges you deeper into Edge.
A Clever Coup Masquerading as a Security Upgrade
Microsoft’s public stance is all about security: “The password era is ending,” the company proclaims, pointing to 7,000 password-based attacks blocked per second. They’re not wrong—passwords are outdated. Passkeys, biometric logins, and hardware keys are undeniably safer.
However, the timing and tactics seem to be a sign of consolidation. This move shifts control from mobile to browser. It makes Edge—not the device-native Authenticator—the central hub of identity management. And in doing so, it pushes Microsoft one step closer to controlling the entire security stack across devices.
It’s like burning the bridge behind you while pointing forward and saying, “Look! A better road.”
Users? They’re in for Chaos
Let’s be blunt: most users don’t know this is coming. When passwords disappear in August, customer support lines are going to light up like a Christmas tree. Sync failures. Locked accounts. Lost credentials.
And worse, no backup plan unless you manually move everything to Edge, or a third-party manager like Bitwarden, Dashlane, or NordPass.
Microsoft’s advice? Use passkeys instead. Great idea, in theory. However, most websites are still not ready for full passkey adoption. So, users are stuck in limbo: passwords are vanishing, passkeys aren’t widespread, and Microsoft’s solution is a browser most people actively avoid.
Strategic or Sabotage?
Microsoft isn’t just killing passwords—it’s subtly kneecapping cross-platform flexibility. In today’s multi-device world, users expect to manage credentials across phones, tablets, laptops, and smart TVs. Edge may work on all those platforms, but the user loyalty isn’t there.
By forcing this shift, Microsoft is gambling that users will prioritize security over convenience—and that they’ll choose to stay rather than migrate elsewhere. It’s a bold move. Maybe too bold.
The Bottom Line
Microsoft Authenticator is being stripped of one of its most useful features. If you use it for passwords, autofill, or payment data, you need a plan now. The Edge campaign is in full swing, but don’t let a splash screen make your security decisions for you.
Whether you choose Edge, passkeys, or another trusted manager, the key is to move fast. Because August is coming, and Microsoft isn’t waiting.
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Under the public lie/farce of “anti-spam”, through Clean-Talk wordpress.
Literally every comment/opinion which you people and Clean-Talk’s system disagree with, thus get’s censored automatically with the lie of it being “spam” and “E-Mail does not exist”.
Freedom for me, but nor for thee.
Don’t even have the guts anymore to just openly say: We love censorship too, and fu.g.g your opinion we disagree with, we delete it and don’t want your opinion here.
You people already proved in the past plenty, censoring comments away which you deem too “critical” (as these ones), for whatever current moral-societal-political reason; only shallow, insignificant nonsense comments are welcomed.
Masquerading censorship and labeling it “moderation” to halo it, was the first step.
Now censorship get’s automated under the lie of anti-spam, and since no human is involved, you are not under fire (or so you think).
Keep publishing articles about anti-corpo, anti censorship, anti-user etc. but at the same time applying censorship yourself.
Hypocrites and double standards as it’s finest.
Because what you are pushing here against Microsoft (automated corporate control, anti-user, anti-freedom), you are using yourself with Clean-Talk, which is fully explained here.
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cleantalk(.)org/email-checker
Hypocrisy don’t get better than this.
I just cleared all of your comments. For some WordPress asks for manual approval because we had huge spam attacks in the past. I don’t have anything with Microsoft, don’t like it to be frank because it killed skype!
News being published, written by machine learning models (“AI”) or mostly clueless writers!
Is this ignorance on purpose, lying to readers that the reasons are some insignificant, shallow “security, convenience and MS Edge”?
By pubilishing those things you are helping the globalist out with their agendas; diverting and covering the actual reasons behind all of this.
Whoever wrote this, educate yourself first what’s actually going on, that e.g. Microsoft, just like every other big corpos or national governments (*cough cough* virus 19 plandemic), are just globalist puppets for decades, and what the agendas are.
08/15 tech article’s as it’s best.
This is NOT about MS execs pushing Microsoft Edge.
This is the global elite’s (globalist) further pushing their New World Ordger agenda, here abolishment of anonymity, total surveillance & control. It’s even worse than in Orwell’s 1984.
The key agenda is PASSKEYS, abolishment of anonymity on the internet.
Under the public lie/farce of “security whatever lie of password being insecure after 40 years of usage”, passkeys are forced down on everyone’s throats.
Passkeys means identification through the digital ID (same as CBDC, globalist agenda soon be mandated for everyone), identification through national ID through the smartphone, biometric smartphone identification, mobile number through the smartphone – which all mean the mobile carriers, the internet/mobile providers, the government, all the sc.um of global spying agencies as N.S.A etc. and corporations now WHO YOU really are.
There is no anonymity using the smarphone, whatever OS, or even throw-away sim cars; it’s designed as a spying device.
And it has already been technically proven that the explanations about passkeys being anonymous, are just blatant lies.
Besides the most obvious deduction, that where the globalist, national governments, spying agencies, big corpos are involved, there is no anonymity.
As can be read here, they are doing it in many different ways and majority of tech companies and players are on board; google, amazon, apple, facebook, everyone declared pushing out passwords and enforcing passkeys through biometric smartphone identification.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/02/22/deepfakes-disinformation-c2pa-origin-cai/
https://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/
https://www.danisch.de/blog/2021/02/23/die-zensur-durch-microsoft/
Just as the globalist are almost finished (after 40 years) with their agenda abolishing hard cash, they now focusing on these things.
Right now the globalist doing the same with p.o.r.n websites and whatever lies about “children juvenile saftey not watching p.o.r.n”.
It’s the same agenda forcing everyone to biometric, national ID, mobile number identification.
This has beend warned off when the globalist publicly cracked down on p.o.r.nhub, which was all orchestrated and a lie.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509660-pornhub-unverified-content-purge-social-media/
The globalist get the ball rolling with enforcing it unto p.o.r.n website (they push this politically now for more than 25 years (especially in Great Britain).
Their next step will likely be enforcing passkeys for every E-Mail provider.
Then comes services as youtube, movie/music/game distribution platforms netflix, steam, apple & google stores etc.
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Under the public lie/farce of “security whatever lie of password being insecure after 40 years of usage”, passkeys are forced down on everyone’s throats.
Passkeys means identification through the digital ID (same as CBDC, globalist agenda soon be mandated for everyone), identification through national ID through the smartphone, biometric smartphone identification, mobile number through the smartphone – which all mean the mobile carriers, the internet/mobile providers, the government, all the sc.um of global spying agencies as N.S.A etc. and corporations now WHO YOU really are.
There is no anonymity using the smarphone, whatever OS, or even throw-away sim cars; it’s designed as a spying device.
And it has already been technically proven that the explanations about passkeys being anonymous, are just blatant lies.
Besides the most obvious deduction, that where the globalist, national governments, spying agencies, big corpos are involved, there is no anonymity.
As can be read here, they are doing it in many different ways and majority of tech companies and players are on board; google, amazon, apple, facebook, everyone declared pushing out passwords and enforcing passkeys through biometric smartphone identification.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/02/22/deepfakes-disinformation-c2pa-origin-cai/
https://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/
https://www.danisch.de/blog/2021/02/23/die-zensur-durch-microsoft/
Just as the globalist are almost finished (after 40 years) with their agenda abolishing hard cash, they now focusing on these things.
Right now the globalist doing the same with p.o.r.n websites and whatever lies about “children juvenile saftey not watching p.o.r.n”.
It’s the same agenda forcing everyone to biometric, national ID, mobile number identification.
This has beend warned off when the globalist publicly cracked down on p.o.r.nhub, which was all orchestrated and a lie.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509660-pornhub-unverified-content-purge-social-media/
The globalist get the ball rolling with enforcing it unto p.o.r.n website (they push this politically now for more than 25 years (especially in Great Britain).
Their next step will likely be enforcing passkeys for every E-Mail provider.
Then comes services as youtube, movie/music/game distribution platforms netflix, steam, apple & google stores etc.
Read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20191010134932/https://www.oneangrygamer.net/steam-waifu-holocaust-2-0-banned-game-list/#disqus_thread
Ever wondered why all those 18+ games being removed by almost all major digital game distribution platforms and even adults can’t buy them anymore?
Same globalist agenda behind this. Besides all of them (Valve, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft etc. are listd on the World Economic Forum’s website as partners) are being globalist puppets for decades (the fake & orchestrated destruction of the video game industry right now proves it), their plan is the same:
1) Remove any s.e.xualized 18+ content first
2) Humans crave s.e.x and that biological urge can’t be shut off; everyone will want it no matter what.
3) Introduce 18+ content back on the stores, but behind a identification wall through digital ID (biometric, national), passkeys through smartphone biometrics, mobile number etc.
It’s that simple.
Just as with p.o.r.nhub were now for 2 years, everyone who wants to upload, are enforced to upload his/her real national ID (and it will be globally checked).
Abolishment of anonymity, same globalist agenda.