Privacy Mode for IE

Apple’s Safari has it, now Microsoft wants some privacy too!

In a meeting with the press this week, Satya Nadella, VP of Microsoft’s search, portal and advertising group, explained that Internet Explorer will now come with a private browsing mode. This comes after a Microsoft blog post in June stated that privacy is one of the major elements of “trustworthy browsing” for IE 8, due out later this year. Nadella went on to say “The larger challenge here is notifying users clearly about what sites they’re disclosing information to, and enabling them to control that disclosure if they choose”.

It seems Microsoft’s IE, which is the most used Internet Browser in the world, decided to go down a different road than their closest web-browsing competitor, Mozilla’s Firefox. Back in June when Microsoft was blogging about adding their Privacy Mode, Firefox blogged “Firefox 3 Won’t have ‘Private Browsing‘ “. Johnathan Nightingale, Firefox’s Security User Interface Designer said, “We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a lot of code…Because there are such rich interactions with Web sites and mashups and things like that, we didn’t want to put in something that was half baked.”

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