After 'Copilot Price Hike' for Microsoft 365, It's Ending Its Free VPN

In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its "Microsoft Defender" security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers ("Personal" and "Family"). Originally Microsoft had "called it a privacy protection feature," writes the blog Windows Central, "designed to let you access sensitive data on the web via a VPN tunnel." But....Unfortunately, Microsoft has now announced that it's killing the feature later this month, only a couple of years after it first debuted...
To add insult to injury,