ActiveX/COM
ActiveX is Microsoft's answer to reusable components. ActiveX is built on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM). COM is an infrastructure in which developers can build components, each in the language of its choice, and share these objects to build bigger, more complex systems. ActiveX is simply the brand name associated with a subset of these technologies. One key feature of COM is that ActiveX/COM components are reusable by any, not just Web-related, program in the system. COM is very much a part of the operating system. In fact, each release of the Windows operating system is increasingly coupled with the COM technology. When thinking about the Web, the brand name ActiveX, not COM, is often what's in people's minds.[9]
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