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 remembering my passwords for each computer. I can't have 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 being a touch
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 is going today. In this
blog 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