Microsoft’s IE development team had designed innovative privacy features that would have been turned on by default to effectively help users avoid being tracked online. Sadly, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft cut the IE8 privacy features to sell ads. Microsoft had spent $6 billion on a Web-ad firm that would help it track and sell targeted ads. IE8 has done some very good things since its launch, like block access to over 560 million sites that it determined were serving malware. Microsoft has another opportunity to act less in the interests of advertisers and more in the interest of users.”]