Windows 8 Will Save Passwords in the Cloud
A tireless Steven Sinofsky, the man in charge of Windows 8, keeps posting information about Windows 8 by the slice.
The latest piece details Microsoft's idea how to better protect your PC with passwords stored in the cloud as well as an infrastructure that will not lock you out when you either forget your password or someone else takes over your PC.
The solution is an approach with a password-manager-style credential manager which will enable users to store passwords for Windows in a similar way browsers do today. Just like IE10 will store account names and passwords for visited websites, Metro apps can use a direct API to store and retrieve credentials for that app. Windows 8 itself will support a sign-on via a Windows Live ID, which stores passwords in the cloud and synchronizes those passwords in an environment that is defined as "Trusted PCs" by the user.
While there may always be questions over the security of "the cloud," Microsoft said that Windows Live ID passwords can make your password management much more convenient. For example, if you forget your local password you may be out of luck and will have to start from scratch (or use a password cracking tool). The cloud approach, however, allows a user to reset a password from another PC. If your password has been stolen, you can recover your account access via secondary authentication data, such as a mobile phone number. Also, Microsoft said, users will be able to sign in to their Windows, as the software caches the your last “known good” sign-in password.

Or something like Google docs with confidential information...
The world's biggest phishing campaign?
Cloud: Be careful who you trust with your data.
Only a matter before the cloud crashes into reality.
a cloud is what it is, a lofty idea in peoples minds. all in all unreachable.
Or something like Google docs with confidential information...
The world's biggest phishing campaign?
Cloud: Be careful who you trust with your data.
Only a matter before the cloud crashes into reality.
a cloud is what it is, a lofty idea in peoples minds. all in all unreachable.
Cheers!
Ever tried Trucrypt?
Sooner or later it does, and I'm pretty sure I don't want the droplet with my information falling into someone's pond.
if microsoft builds it, it'll have such bad privacy protection that even facebook will stay away from it.
cloud=bad
microsoft=stupid
microsoft+cloud= failx2stupidx3
We are like frogs put into a slowly boiling pot of water. Hope the majority of the masses realize this and wake up and say "NO" to "CLOUD - ONLY' services and make it OPTIONAL.
We, the people are giving away our privacy and rights slowly for the sake of convenience.
WAKE UP WORLD.
Now I wish they would come out with a Win 7 patch for the new AMD 8 core cpus that win 8 shows (tested via beta versions) a 5 to 10% performance boost. That issue would be my only reason I would even come close to switching to win 8 but not if they force people to float around on Microsucks cloud. We all float here says Pennywise (or Billywise in this case) the clown before he rips your legs off and eats ya. Ouch. S. King should write about the evil Microsoft in his next book... LOL... With a Bill Gates looking monster that is under everyone's bed.. haha....
And I WILL run a hacked copy if they can get around this hurdle. Heck, I got both with Win 7 and prefer the hacked one over the real one because I'm always changing hardware and they like to give you problems if you keep re-installing a legit one. Isn't that a kick... Nope, I'm not going to be floating in Microsucks clouds for any reason. All about piracy and they don't care if they tie up bandwidth across the web doing it.
But I really want that extra performance for the new AMD cpu that win 8 opens up.