You Have Less Than 3 Weeks Left Before Microsoft Deletes Your Passwords. Do This Now

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The future of Microsoft will see us say goodbye to an all-too-familiar thing of the past -- passwords. 

After August, Microsoft Authenticator will no longer support passwords at all. If you're still using the Authenticator app to manage logins, big changes are coming fast. This shift is already in motion: New password creation was ...