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Microsoft's new Surface Book hybrid laptop and Surface Pro 4 productivity-oriented tablet both include hardware for biometric authentication using facial recognition. Yet when I reviewed them, I couldn't test out the feature because we didn't have a complete final driver stack.
Since then, we've been given final software loadouts and Windows Hello has sprung into life. Whether using facial, fingerprint, or iris recognition, the Hello process is broadly the same: first PIN login must be enabled, then you register your biometric data. In common with other biometric systems, such as Apple's TouchID, the biometrics data never leaves the machine and is securely stored in such a way that it shouldn't be possible for malicious applications to capture or exfiltrate the data. Registration for the facial recognition is easy peasy: the camera looks at you for a few seconds, and you're done.
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