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One thing unclear:

While I understand they want to transparently replace passwords with passkeys for websites that support it, what happens with passwords for websites that don't support passkeys?

Also, if someone sleeps over this, they will just lose their passwords to random websites and have to go through account recovery flows?



If you install Edge, you can keep using the synced passwords. They're only disabling password autofill for their authenticator app, they're not throwing your passwords away.

The app has been warning about this for a while now. This might catch someone out of guard if they only use the app once a year for something bureaucratic, but I doubt a credential like that will be stored in Microsoft's authenticator app.




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