Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft VP who oversees IE, discussed IE9, the browser market, and privacy at the All Things Digital CES event last week. Microsoft deserves praise for the anti-tracking protection in IE9. But it’s more likely that Microsoft’s motives are centered on competing on a privacy platform to beat out Google. Over the years, Microsoft has spurned users’ privacy in favor of assisting law enforcement and intelligence agencies obtain private user data. Microsoft has invested $240 million in Facebook in 2007, calling it a “strategic alliance””]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2228248/microsoft-to-use-privacy-in-battle-with-google.html