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Microsoft is killing its “free” VPN with Microsoft 365 subscriptions, just days after increasing prices

In 2023, Microsoft began including a VPN feature in the Microsoft Defender app for all Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers at no additional cost, enabling millions of users to take advantage of a “free” VPN as part of the subscription. Microsoft called it a privacy protection feature, designed to let you access sensitive data on the web via a VPN tunnel.  The VPN feature in Microsoft Defender, part of Microsoft 365, will be removed on February 28.

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Microsoft stock slumps more than 6% on disappointing revenue outlook

Microsoft shares dropped 6.2% after issuing weak current-quarter guidance after the bell Wednesday. The software giant topped Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter estimates, posting earnings of $3.23 per share on $69.63 billion in revenue. That surpassed the earnings per share of $3.11 and $68.78 billion in revenue forecast by analysts polled by LSEG. Shares registered their worst day since October 2022.

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