This one falls along the line of stories with implications that have been substantially under-reported. But I view part of my gig here as reporting the under-reported, so that's why I am making this ...

Security problems have plagued Microsoft's Internet Explorer for years, and the Web browser continues to suffer from critical vulnerabilities. In fact, Microsoft has known about one of IE's latest ...

In your pages, you can test for the presence of the Windows Media ActiveX control with the following JavaScript: 01 var player; 02 var plugin; 03 var hasActiveX=false ...

According to sources close to the project, ActiveX filtering will be a part of the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate. According to WinRumors: “The filter will allow users to control what ActiveX ...

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My 2008R2 Citrix servers are on IE9. We have a large portion of users who can barely operate a mouse. Biggest issue I've had so far is the damn ActiveX Filtering ability. Our users have apparently ...

Windows 10 will ship with a new web browser called Microsoft Edge. PC users will still be able to use Internet Explorer, but Microsoft is really pushing its new browser which features a new rendering ...

The Windows Media Player 7/9 has a rich set of control functions that can be called from Javascript in the Web page. Calling these from Javascript is the same whether you're in Mozilla or Internet ...

Microsoft Office has supported ActiveX for years as an option for extending and automating documents, but it has also been a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft is finally starting to turn ...