Microsoft Edge, the browser formally known as Project Spartan to be bundled with Windows 10, will ditch ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects (BHO) in favour of HTML5 and JavaScript. However ...

Examples of plugins that use ActiveX are Flash Player and Acrobat Reader of Adobe, Java of Oracle, and Silverlight of Microsoft. The Microsoft Edge team explained that ActiveX controls are no ...

Microsoft Edge. Microsoft eventually updated the Office apps to not run ActiveX content automatically, but some malicious files can successfully trick people into clicking the ‘Enable Content ...

However, Microsoft still allows enabling ActiveX for compatibility reasons in Office apps and Microsoft Edge via Internet Explorer mode.