MS Research Toolbar is ruining IE user experience

[steve]

As many have chimed in about this, the MS Research pain (sic) installs itself
by default during an MS Office install not only for Word/Excel.. but for
Internet Explorer too!?

Not only is the MS Research toolbar in IE useless (IMHO) it adds significant
lag to the load time of Internet Explorer while providing no benifit.

To developers on the MS Office team I would highly recommend reading the
comments on the IE Blog. They are far from pretty and they are quite turse
in blaming MS Research for the poor performance of IE.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/10/16/ending-expressions.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/02/26/ie8-videos-on-channel-9.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/11/19/ie8-what-s-after-beta-2.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/29/overview-of-platform-improvements-in-ie8-rc1.aspx

etc.

So to wrap up;
1.) please do not install the MS Research feature by default in MS Office
2.) please do not install anything in IE unless it is absolutely necs (and
the speed issues are fixed, and it doesn't run any code until needed)
3.) provide an uninstall button that will appear in the IE addons dialog box
so that users can uninstall this without having to Google to find out where
it came from in the first place.

Thank you.

 

[Gordon]

As many have chimed in about this, the MS Research pain (sic) installs
itself
by default during an MS Office install not only for Word/Excel.. but for
Internet Explorer too!?

Err no it doesn't......not here, anyway. Office 2007....