We Love Passkeys - But How Can We Convince a Billion Users?
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Microsoft rolls out consumer passkey support with concrete results: 1 in 4 click-through on proactive enrollment nudges, 99% completion rate for those who start registration, and a 98% successful sign-in rate for passkey-authenticated sessions (three times password success). Sign-ins drop from ~24s with passwords and ~69s with MFA to ~8s with passkeys. A/B tests show speed and security messaging both lift enrollment; automatic credential prioritization, progressive backoff nudges, and forecasts predict hundreds of millions of enrollments in 12 months as passwords are phased out.
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- 0:00Introduction and team
- 2:48Grandma’s password struggles
- 4:30Rising password attack stats
- 5:12Why we love passkeys
- 6:19Convincing a billion users
- 7:21Start small experiment learn
- 8:24When to nudge users enroll
- 9:49Crafting the right nudge
- 11:55Handling user hesitation
- 13:19Redesigning sign-in UX
- 15:26Results and adoption data
- 16:52Global rollout and defaults
- 17:57Moving to passwordless future
- 19:01Account recovery risks
- 20:03Key takeaways for adoption
- 21:31Call to action together
- 21:52Happy ending for Grandma
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