Microsoft is getting ready to remove VPN facility from Microsoft 365 membership later this month. Originally designed as a privacy feature, Microsoft uses the Microsoft defender app to encrypted VPN Internet traffic in Microsoft 365 and hide IP addresses. Microsoft is now removing this privacy security facility from Microsoft 365 on 28 February.
“We regularly evaluate the use and effectiveness of our characteristics. For example, we are removing privacy protection facility and investing in new areas that will better align the needs of customers, ”in one call Microsoft in one Support note Viewed by Windows Central,
Microsoft 365 customers will still have access to identity theft and credit monitoring in the US, but they have to look else else for VPN support. It is clear that the lack of people using privacy protection facility has removed Microsoft, but Microsoft 365 was never adequately painted to use VPN widely. Microsoft limited you to one 50GB monthly data limitAnd VPN is automatically connected to a local region, making it impossible to work around Jio restrictions, who often use for VPN.
Removing VPN profit in Microsoft 365 comes only a few weeks after increasing the price of subscription for the first time in 12 years. Microsoft is Bundled Office AI Microsoft 365 features And the extra $ 3 months prices have increased, but you can downgrade a classic plan that maintains the existing price for personal or family membership without additional AI features.