Apr 18 2017
03:37 PM
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03:44 PM
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Apr 18 2017
03:37 PM
- last edited on
Jan 14 2022
03:44 PM
by
TechCommunityAP
Forgot your password? No problem. Now you can sign in without needing to remember a complicated string of characters, just using your phone!
Phone sign-in for Microsoft accounts is now generally available. Add your account to our Authenticator app, enter your username and receive a notification on your phone. Once you approve the notification, you’re in! No password needed, and much more secure.
Read more about it in the Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog.
Apr 18 2017 06:33 PM
Apr 19 2017 12:11 AM
Yeah... this:
[Update 4/18/17 3:08pm Pacific: A few people have asked if this works with Windows Phone version Microsoft Authenticator. Windows Phone makes up <5% of the active users of our Authenticator Apps so we have prioritized getting this working with iOS and Android for now. If/When it becomes a big success on those high scale platforms, we will evaluate adding support for Windows Phone.]
Not cool, not cool at all.
Apr 19 2017 02:39 AM
Hi Mary,
Great news!
But our clients and us internally use Windows Phone as the business phone.
Apr 19 2017 02:35 PM
This is just for cosnumer Microsoft Accounts for now (outlook.com, hotmail.com etc) not business accounts Office 365-Azure AD (work or school accounts).
Apr 19 2017 09:45 PM
Vasil,
It doesn't work on my Nokia 3310 either, so they should develop it for that too. Windows Phone is barely used, so why bother extending development efforts to it?
Apr 20 2017 12:53 AM
Maybe because a lot of organizations actually made the switch to WP once MS bought Nokia's mobile business and made some promises around it? :)
Even back then, there was barely any attention given to Microsoft's own platform from the different dev teams. I cannot even recall how many times we've heard the "wait for WP10, wait for UWP" excuse. We waited, and now the platform is dead, because if even your own devs dont want to release apps for it, who will...
But anyway, it's about time I ditch my WP :)