Wahab Khan 
Microsoft will release its Edge browser with a new free built-in VPN to boost user security and privacy. According to a Microsoft support page, the company is currently in the testing process of the Cloudflare-powered Virtual Private Network service for its Edge Browser. Known as Edge Secure Network, it will serve the public with upgraded security during browser usage.
As per rule, Edge Secure Network needs to encrypt web traffic to stop internet service providers from collecting browsing data you want to keep private. The new feature will enable users to hide their location by browsing the virtual IP address of the web. That means you could also access blocked content in your country, like, for example, Hulu or Netflix shows.
While the new feature allows a 16GB limited data usage per month, users need to sign in to a Microsoft account, enabling them to track their usage. Microsoft says Cloudflare will gather diagnostic and support information from the built-in VPN service, and the company will permanently dispose of that information every 25 hours.
Microsoft is still developing the feature and hasn’t made it available for early testing. The company gave a detailed explanation of how users can try a preview. That recommends users can download and join one of the Microsoft Edge Insider channels that could be rolled out soon. Once it starts doing so, you can open up the Edge browser, head to Settings, and click on Secure Network to try out the preview of the version.
Microsoft requires its users to sign in or create a new account to avail of the service. Then, the browser frame will prompt a solid shield icon to indicate Microsoft’s Edge Secure Network is now gets turned on. Typically, it will turn off the network after you close the browser.
Microsoft browser offers some VPN services to help improve Edge’s value proposition. Other browsers like Opera also have a free VPN service, whereas popular browsers, such as Mozilla and Google Chrome, offer a paid VPN service.
Before that Microsoft made a headline by getting sustained growth for Office, Windows, and Cloud in Q3 this year. It experienced another quarter filled with double-digit revenue growth with 49.4 billion revenue and $16.7 billion of net income.
This time the revenue is about 18 percent, whereas the profit an increase of eight percent from last year. Microsoft has credited a chunk of this growth to the cloud, including its sever and services, which made up 29 percent, and Microsoft Cloud with 32% to $23.4billion.
Some experts suspected Microsoft’s growth because of some reasons. They saw the company promoting Chrome sales instead of selling MS Windows machines when the PC industry started to turn down its pandemic highs. The Xbox also witnesses its best sales revenue in the eleven years, conveniently whipping the relatively supply-constrained PlayStation 5.
Microsoft says it is about a more personal computing setup, including Xbox and Windows. The business was up by eleven percent to $14.5 billion in the third quarter. Windows OEM revenue includes the 11% that manufacturers need to pay to install Windows 11 on desktops and laptops. According to Satya Nadella, the CEO, more and more enterprises seem to adopt Windows 11 than any previous OS releases.
