Friday, 13 May 2016
Microsoft is bringing fingerprint authentication to Windows Hello – its biometric security platform – on mobile phones with the Anniversary Update coming this summer. It’s about time. That’s not to say Windows Mobile devices don’t support biometric authentication, but the current method of choice – the iris scans introduced on the Lumia 950 series – isn’t very practical. Iris-scanning has been long-been the sci-fi-favorite movies, but it turns out touching your finger against a sensor is faster than holding up a phone up to your eyeballs. Windows Hello was announced as an integral part of Windows 10 in March of 2015. The face…
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