Microsoft in doghouse for making privacy a Default

Microsoft isn't getting an easy time so far this month.
Opposition to Microsoft's decision to release IE10 with DNT (Do Not Track) being turned on by default, is putting them offside with some players.
"Do Not Track", is intended to help you roam the Net freely, without being worried about someone keeping tabs on what your looking at, or researching. It is a standard in development, and has no real power yet.
The privacy problem arises when the advertising organisations pay sites to host their ads. These ads are then traced to determine your preferences and types of sites you visit, with the intention of sending you ads in the future that you would be more favorable to, increasing the chances of making a sale.   DNT is just a simple header that your browser slips inside the request for a resource(the web pages you wish to look at along with it's ads), that states that you do not wish to be tracked. None of the tracking organisation's actually tie your movements profile to your name. You are anonymous in that way(except in the odd ocurance when they ask you for some particular situations, and then you have to approve the connection). There are an increasing number of organisation's that currently using tracking to help pay for the privilege of you using their resources.
 Everyone is being tracked everyday already, and don't realise by how many or who!!
Your mobile phone is a massive tracker of your movements, with everything you do. Your phone company keeps a list of  where you are (what mobile phone tower you are on), who you are talking to, where they are, how long you are talking. You may have location services on and don't realise it, it is using your location from the phone towers and GPS, giving you suggestions of restaurants, cinema and the like to visit, closed ATM's to your current location. Leaving your Bluetooth &/or Wi-Fi on, lets you be tracked inside the shopping plaza. By triangulating your position with sensors throughout the plaza they can identify which shop you went into, what window you stopped to look at & so on.
 The GPS in the car will usually keep a list of your movements, and send this data  back to the map makers when you update your map data. Every-time you use your credit card, the location is noted. In previous times Apple landed itself in hot water over this sort of thing. As did Google over the info it was collecting with it's 'Street View' data collection.Our government transport departments, and local councils, are collecting data all the time concerning our movements with road & street camera's, and electronic motorway e-tags.
Advertising companies will pay good dollars for this info. And this is the thing that scares people, How much do they know about me??
What secrets do they know about me??
Who have they told I'm doing this??

  So far, both Safari & Firefox, have a "Do Not Track", while there is a downloadable extension to attach to chrome, but none have it as a default.But only Microsoft intend to make it a default at the moment. The sticking point seems to be the wording in the latest draft saying  'an ordinary user agent MUST NOT send a Tracking Preference signal without a user's explicit consent," where "user agent" means "browser.'. So what means is, WE the user, have to say we don't want to be tracked. Microsoft
's position say's to me that they realise that the normal everyday user, does not want the hassle of going through all the menu's to click a switch, so they want to make it on by default. If you really want to be tracked you can turn it off.
The fear is that if Microsoft goes ahead with DNT being a default, the the add organisations will pull their support of the standard which will set everything back to the start.
What do you think??
Do you want it on by default??
Will you be turning it on??
Would you know how to turn it on??
Is Microsoft doing the right thing??