Anyone perusing porn sites at home will appreciate Microsoft’s latest efforts at browser privacy, but it’s not clear it will do much for the enterprise. World Wide Web Explorer product manager Andrew Ziegler discussed the new privacy features of IE8, currently in its second beta, in an extensive blog post Monday. Users of the new software will be able to turn on Microsoft’s InPrivate Browsing and Blocking features.

When what many observers are calling “porn mode” is turned on,

IE8 doesn’t store history, cookies, mold details, passwords, URLs, search queries or visited urls.

Porn Mode?

Ziegler suggested the need for such privacy is completely on the up-and-up. “Maybe you need to buy a gift for a loved one without ruining the surprise,” he wrote. “Maybe you’re at an Net kiosk and don’t want the next person using it to know at which Web site you bank.”

While the problem of clearing […]

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