Microsoft promises to ease the pains of going passwordless Roughly 200 million people using Microsoft services already have made the jump past passwords. Listen - 02:11 Yubico's YubiKeys can make login more secure and help you move beyond passwords. Stephen Shankland/CNET Microsoft is updating its widely used cloud computing technology to make it easier for millions of us to dump our passwords. The tech giant is making passwordless login a standard feature for Azure Active Directory, a cloud-based service customers can use to handle their employees' login chores, the company said at its Ignite conference on Tuesday. The three-day conference, held online this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is geared for IT and other tech staff who use Microsoft's products.