Microsoft accounts get the option for double-click closing catch-authentication, as illustrated by several screenshots. Microsoft also has an ‘authenticator’app for Windows Phone released, with which security tokens can be generated.
The screenshots, which the double-click closing catch-mechanism to show, on LiveSide. The site also has information about the authenticator app. This mobile application for Windows Phone can be to a Microsoft account, which ‘tokens’ can be generated through the extra step to gain access to Microsoft services. For services with a Microsoft account to work, but no double-click closing catch-authentication support, it is possible to create a separate ‘app password’ to generate.
Microsoft accounts for more and more different services and products of the software giant, including Windows 8, Office, Outlook.com and Skype. In addition, third-party services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn on the account be linked. Yet there is an e-mail address and a password is enough to log in to a Microsoft account.
Security using multiple steps is increasingly applied. Accounts from competitor Google for some time, and in this way be secured and also Twitter working on an implementation of the inlogwijze.
