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Microsoft Defender

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Overview

What Microsoft Defender does

Microsoft's antivirus and threat protection, bundled free into Windows and sold as paid add-ons for individuals and businesses.

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Microsoft Defender.

  • The overview page names Business, Business Premium and Enterprise tiers but publishes no per-seat figure on the page itself, routing every plan to a separate pricing page instead
  • Full family and business protection requires a Microsoft 365 Family, Personal or Premium subscription rather than being included with the free built-in Windows version
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