After 'Copilot Price Hike' for Microsoft 365, It's Ending Its Free VPN

In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its "Microsoft Defender" security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers ("Personal" and "Family"). Originally Microsoft had "called it a privacy protection feature," writes the blog Windows Central, "designed to let you access sensitive data on the web via a VPN tunnel." But....Unfortunately, Microsoft has now announced that it's killing the feature later this month, only a couple of years after it first debuted... To add insult to injury, this announcement comes just days after Microsoft increased subscription prices across the board. Both Personal and Family subscriptions went up by three dollars a month, which the company says is the first price hike Microsoft 365 has seen in over a decade. The increased price does now include Microsoft 365 Copilot, which adds AI features to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and others. However, it also comes with the removal of the free VPN in Microsoft Defender, which I've found to be much more useful so far.

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