For a while to this part, the Gigware of the Microsoft software is committed to its subscription model of the popular own office suite, Office. However, and for the dislike of many, the prices of this have just uploaded and is even dedicated to eliminating very important functions.
Surely many of you already know firsthand that when talking about Microsoft 365, we refer to the set of office programs that we can subscribe for a certain time. This saves us having to pay for the Office license, and pay a subscription during the months that we are really going to need applications such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
This is a huge advantage for many users worldwide who prefer to pay a relatively reduced price for using these applications only when they need them. In addition, we must take into consideration that the company, in the last year 2023, began to include a VPN function or virtual private network in the Microsoft Defender application for the subscribers of Microsoft 365. This is something that extended for those who had A personal or family account, all without additional cost.
As you can imagine, this incorporation allowed a good number of users to take advantage of this VPN safety service, for free and as part of the subscription. The company called it privacy protection function.
It is true that functionally of this VPN is somewhat more limited compared to other similar third -party services. But for many it was a great advantage to be able to enjoy all this for free in the subscription of Microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365 VPN will disappear shortly
Recently, the software giant has uploaded the prices of this subscription model to the office suite we tell you. This is something that adds to the constant cost of cost of other subscriptions that we surely enjoy at the moment. But not only that, in addition to the bad news we tell you, the company also has just announced that it plans to eliminate this free privacy service so far.
As they inform us, they will eliminate the privacy protection function to use their efforts in new areas that best fit the needs of their millions of clients. Obviously, perhaps the strategy used by Microsoft at the moment is not the best. We tell you this because this announcement occurs a few days after the company increased the prices of subscriptions in a generalized way.
And it is that both personal and family subscriptions have increased their cost in Microsoft 365, something that occurs for the first time in more than a decade. The price increase now includes Microsoft 365 Copilot, which adds artificial intelligence functions to Word, PowerPoint and Excel, among others. In spite of all this, surely many do not like the elimination of free VPN in Microsoft Defender, as we have told you. Say that Microsoft Defender’s VPN function will be eliminated on February 28, 2025.
