What are the privacy implications of this?

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From: Michael Dillon
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 00:00

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What are the privacy implications of this?
    
    To qualify for free Windows NT
    software, however, an ISP must
    customize IE 4 according to
    Microsoft's specifications--which
    allow Microsoft to keep track of the
    number of new IE users.

(excerpted from
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,20978,00.html?st.ne.1.head )

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Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com

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