Microsoft 365 increases prices and releases its free VPN

To pay more and get less seems to be standard operating processes these days. This is what Microsoft 365 (the unusual new name for Microsoft Office) is about, since the VPN contained by the service is dropped on February 28th.

After a Support Note On the Microsoft website, the company evaluates “the use and effectiveness of our functions routinely” and has decided that the VPN is not a necessary component of Microsoft 365.

How to go VPNs, it was only okay

In truth, it is not a big loss. Microsoft’s VPN was delivered with a monthly data limit of 50 GB and did not allow them to Trick your browser in the way of thinking that you are in the world somewhere elseto make it less useful than some of the Best free VPNs. It safely covered their traffic, but not much else.

Nevertheless, it’s a bit of a slap in the face, as it follows the first Microsoft 365 subscription price increase In 12 years. Both personal and family plans now cost 3 US dollars more per month to rise around 43%. Allegedly, the increases are justified by the addition of limited AI functions of the Copilot AI, in which an add-on was paid for $ 20.

This add-on is still available when the limited AI credits contained the new subscriptions Ki -Skeptic You only have one way to avoid that you pay more for the now VPN service service: For the next 12 months, existing subscribers can downgrade a “Microsoft 365 Personal Classic” or “Microsoft 365 Family Classic” plan,, The same functions has the same as current plans minus AI (and of course the VPN). The company says that it “rates the length of the availability of these subscriptions”, so that they may not be there for long.

New customers now have no choice but to include the new prices. On the positive side, the current 365 plan continues to contain protection theft protection and loan surveillance despite the lack of VPN.