The developers back at Micro$oft have suddenly woken up to privacy concerns of their customer and decided to introduce Private Browsing a.k.a Porn Mode, in the upcoming Internet Explorer 8.

The fancy name for this feature is “InPrivate”. When activated, InPrivate won’t store new cookies, but still allows existing cookies to be read. Additionally, new history entries, search queries, form data, passwords and temporary web files will be purged at the end of the internet session. It is basically a step forward from the IE7 tool ‘Delete Browsing History’, which didn’t allow data - such as cookies from often-visited websites - to be retained if the user wanted the option. According to Micro$oft’s IEBlog, the features related with privacy would be

• InPrivate Browsing: This lets you control whether or not IE saves your browsing history, cookies, and other data.
• Delete Browsing History: This helps you control your browsing history after you’ve visited Web sites.
• InPrivate Blocking: This informs you about content that is in a position to observe your browsing history, and allows you to block it. InPrivate Blocking will also warn users of third-party content which gives others information about browsing habits without using cookies, and offer to prevent communication with this type of content.
• InPrivate Subscriptions: This feature allow you to augment the capability of InPrivate Blocking by subscribing to lists of Web sites to block or allow.

So, if you are asking when you can get this amazing kinky feature, the next beta is expected in November by some sources…

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With the entire netizen community going ga-ga over announcements of Firefox 3 release and checking out the release candidates, everybody seemed to have missed out the news from Micro$oft last week about their next disaster in the line. It seems Ballmer and his gang will burden us with next beta release of Internet Explorer 8 this August. For now IE 8 looks very much similar to IE 7 and the major changes or additions would be that Micro$oft would be trying to adhere to standards more than what it has been doing all this time. This would also make IE 8 incompatible with the pages which were specifically coded for non-standard versions of previous IE. IE 8 also would introduce us to Web Slices which is somewhat similar to Active Desktop. We can also expect Micro$oft to plug many vulnerabilities and introduce many in this upcoming release.

I am certainly not very anxious for this release. For now Firefox seems to take care of my browsing requirements.

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