Login with Picture Password in Windows 8

Login with Picture Password in Windows 8

 
I have 6 laptops - 5 Sony Viao and 1 HP. In addition to that, I also have 2 desktops - both Dell. So, one of the biggest challenges today I have to remember my passwords for each computer. I can't have the same passwords for all computers also. 
 
But I may have found my solution. I may have found this new but the best operating system ever developed by Microsoft, Windows 8
 
Windows 8 has this new feature where we can now sign in using a picture password. Now one may wonder how a picture password can be secure. Now Windows 8 is a touch the enabled operating system, chances are you may not even use a keyboard and that is why it makes sense to build a picture password.
 
After reading a blog post on Building Windows 8, I found it very intriguing where technology has been and where it is going today. 
 

In this a blog is written bin Zach at Windows 8 development team

 
“At its core, the picture password feature is designed to highlight the parts of an image that are important to you, and it requires a set of gestures that allow you to accomplish this quickly and confidently. In order to determine the best set of gestures to use, we distributed a set of pictures to a set of study participants and asked them to highlight the parts of the image that were important to them. That's it, no additional instructions. What we found were people doing three basic things: indicating location, connecting areas or highlighting paths, and enclosing areas. We mapped these ideas to tap, line, and circle, respectively. It's the minimal set of gestures we found that allowed people to signify the parts of the image most important to them.”
 
Continue reading how it works here
 
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