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You may soon need no passwords if Satya Nadella of Microsoft has his way

Microsoft's CEO was addressing the 'Future Unleashed: Accelerating India' event in Mumbai.

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With growing concerns over security of emails and mobile phones, technology giant Microsoft today said it is working on ways to rid tech users of their worries over passwords.

"One of the biggest security issues is passwords. One of the things that we are working on is a world where passwords are not going to be the ones that you know can get hacked, but you have other biometrics that really help us secure our computing interfaces," Microsoft Corporation chief executive Satya Nadella said at an event in Mumbai. He was delivering the keynote address at 'Future Unleashed: Accelerating India', Microsoft's largest ever customer conference here, celebrating 25 years of the Richmond-based company's in the country.

Hyderabad-born Nadella said the company has a sense of purpose that is about empowering every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. "We had a mission of putting a personal computer PC on every desk in every home, but in retrospect that was a goal. Our mission was to empower every individual and organisation. That's really what I look at as we go forward," said Nadella, who has completed 25 years at Microsoft.

Nadella said that with, changing world and technologies, the company has more ambitions to reinvent productivity and business processes. "Our first ambition is reinvention of productivity and business process. We want to make sure that work no longer is a place you go to. Work is about making things happen and getting things done wherever you are," he noted, adding that the purpose of Microsoft is to to build an intelligent cloud.  He unveiled the new cloud start-up initiative to empower the smart cities.

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