It is tempting to look for short-term motives for every action by a big technology company. Case in point: with the debut of the Windows 8 Release Preview last week, Microsoft enabled the “Do Not Track” setting in Internet Explorer 10.
That’s a first for any browser on any platform, and arguably a provocative move. My colleague Andrew Nusca views it as a message to the ad industry: Microsoft to advertisers: Drop dead.
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