Microsoft Authenticator provides multi-factor authentication options, as well as a password manager. Here's what you should know about the app.

If the Microsoft Authenticator app doesn’t cover all your needs, support for FIDO2 hardware security devices is also coming. That could be a Yubikey, or even a fitness tracker like the Motiv Ring.

Designating Microsoft Authenticator as an autofill provider on your mobile device will prompt the app to offer to save your passwords when you enter them on a site or in an app.

Microsoft is unifying its various authenticator apps into a single Microsoft Authenticator one that will begin rolling out to consumers and business users as of August 15.

Microsoft is moving toward a password-less future. As part of that shift, it no longer wants the Authenticator app to handle ...