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Active Desktop took place in Windows 98 with IE4. You are correct that Active Desktop was September 1997.

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I know I didn't have to change my software in order to make my existing COM components, including a styleable linear 'slider' control I designed, into ActiveX components - the only change was the branding. One reason I remember this so clearly is that I was one of the people making COM components at the time it was rebranded ActiveX. According to their announcement, many companies had already been making them, as 'COM' for desktop software, prior to IE 3.0 supporting them and the change to the ActiveX branding. The Microsodt announcement says thousands of COM/ActiveX components were already available, but could now be used in the web browser (IE 3.0).ДЄccording to Microsoft's announcement, ActiveX controls' were formerly called 'COM components'. Here's the 1996 Microsoft announcement officially announcing the ActiveX name and their strategy for presenting it as a web technology, in which they say 'ActiveX controls (formerly COM components)'. The second half of the article covers iDispatch, a style of COM interface. Here's an article that Microsoft added to MSDN in 1995. This post is a history lesson in how we got here.

Someone may point out 'that was 20 years ago'. Over time, the competitive issues you pointed out became more important.

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The desktop shell Explorer and the browser Explorer were the same code with a different wrapper. What was originally supposed to be done by the File Explorer shell now needed to be done by the browser, so the two projects merged to become Explorer. Instead of focusing on an Active Desktop, the sales pitch was to use this on the web, with ActiveX web pages. Internet Explorer became the most important ActiveX container. They route they chose was to rename COM to 'ActiveX' and pitch it as a web technology. What can Microsoft do to save their investment? So here's Microsoft with a billion dollars invested in a system for embedding pics in your documents and your desktop, suddenly not needed because HTML does documents with embedded pics and sounds so much simpler. Fuck! Literally their were a lot of Fun bombs at Microsoft when they saw the rise of HTML, with its simplicity. Microsoft's 'big new thing' was suddenly outdated as a overly complex, over-engineered mess just as it was released. Even 'TD IMG src' - you could have a table with an embedded picture with no proprietary Microsoft technology needed. Just before the release in Windows 95, something interesting happened.ДЄs Microsoft was about to start the big PR blitz showing how not only could your Word documents contain pictures, but even your desktop could contain active programs, along came 'IMG src'.

This next generation of OLE was called COM.

Microsoft spent lots of money and time building on this idea, it was their 'big new thing', an OS (shell) and programming tools built around this concept. Basically it let you put one document inside another - a picture inside a spreadsheet, a song in a Word document. They had something called OLE, Object Linking and Embedding. The sudden rise of the web screwed up their plans and they had to scramble to try to salvage some of their investment. Historically, how it happened was in the early 1990s, before the web, Microsoft spent a ton of money building a really cool technology.

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