微软近日宣布自家取代IE的新一代浏览器Edge浏览器将不再支持过去长久以来用于IE浏览器的ActiveX、VBScript与Brower Helper Objects(BHO)等10多项扩展及界面技术，并将转向以Java Script与HTML 5为基础的标准技术。 微软Edge浏览器将不再支持ActiveX等老技术 ActiveX诞生于1996年 ...

The company's new browser will be liberated from ActiveX and other old technologies. That should make Edge more competitive -- and help the Web itself move into the future. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Edge, Microsoft's upcoming new browser, may drop support for older plugins - including Microsoft's 19-year-old ActiveX - to improve its security. Crispin Cowan, senior program manager for Microsoft ...

Microsoft’s new Edge browser will discard two of the oldest browser technologies found in the aged Internet Explorer (IE) and replace them with add-ons based on HTML5 and JavaScript. The new ...

Microsoft is making Skype in the browser plugin-free, the company announced this morning. But before you get too excited, be aware that this new experience only works ...

Microsoft is serious about giving a fresh start to its own Internet browser, with the new Edge browser, which will be included in the upcoming Windows 10 operating system, to not include old ...

The uptake of HTML5 video playback has forced Microsoft to take the sword to Silverlight and leave it unsupported in its soon-to-be-released Edge web browser for Windows 10. Microsoft said in a blog ...

Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI ("Netscape Plugin API", the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...