Microsoft Defender can only use VPN for one category of users, here's who benefits

2024-08-03 15:14:03 / TRENDING ALFA PRESS

Microsoft Defender can only use VPN for one category of users, here's who

Private subscribers of Microsoft 365 business packages will soon be able to use its built-in VPN as part of the subscription, but with certain traffic and functionality restrictions.

The Microsoft 365 subscription package, in personal and family editions, will offer subscribers another useful functionality, the ability to use a VPN built into Windows.

The Privacy Protection option is available within the Microsoft Defender security tool, for now only to users in the US, UK, Canada and Germany, but regional availability will soon expand to a slightly wider list of countries and territories.

The VPN will be available to anyone who pays for a subscription to Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365), but it won't offer all the features one might expect from such a service. Namely, users will not be able to choose in which country they will connect to the Internet, to "hide" their real location, but their traffic will be encrypted and redirected through the nearest Microsoft VPN server. In the package, it will be possible to reach up to 50 GB of traffic per month per user.

Within Defender, it will be possible to check the current state of traffic consumption. In case of exceeding the monthly amount of traffic, the data transfer speed will be reduced to 256 kbps, until the first day of the following month, when the counter will be reset.

Microsoft says 50GB should be more than enough for most users for basic privacy protection during regular use and web browsing.

 

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