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Many Microsoft Windows applications—including many of those from Microsoft itself, such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Windows Media Player—use ActiveX controls to build their feature-set and also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls which can then be embedded into other applications.
On May 19, 2021, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer will be no longer supported on June 15, 2022 [a] and as part of transition, IE mode will be available on the new Microsoft Edge which allows launch older ActiveX controls and legacy websites until at least 2029. [8]
Additionally, NTVDM and the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs, are no longer included with Windows 11. User-mode scheduling (UMS), available on x64 versions Windows 7 and later, was a lightweight mechanism allowing applications to schedule their own ...
This is corrected in Internet Explorer 9 and later. The ability to customize the toolbar layout is removed. The position of the address bar and the 'command bar' cannot be readjusted. Internet Explorer is no longer integrated with Windows Explorer. This can also be seen in Internet Explorer 7/8 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Later versions of Internet Explorer prompt the user before installing an ActiveX control, allowing them to block installation. As a level of protection, an ActiveX control is signed with a digital signature to guarantee authenticity. It is also possible to disable ActiveX controls altogether, or to allow only a selected few.
In Windows 11, Edge is the only browser available from Microsoft (for compatibility [27] [28] with Google Chrome). [29] However, it includes an "Internet Explorer mode", which is aimed at fixing compatibility issues; it provides the legacy MSHTML browser engine and supports the legacy ActiveX and BHO technologies. [30]
Windows is criticized for having the Internet Explorer web browser integrated into the Windows shell from Windows 98 onwards. Previously Internet Explorer was shipped as a separate application. [19] One problem was that since the Explorer cannot be easily replaced with a product of another vendor, this undermines consumer choice. [20]
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is the eleventh and final version of the Internet Explorer web browser.It was initially included in the release of Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on October 17, 2013, and was later released for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on November 7, 2013.