Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Although the documentation does mention that in case the deployment PC's drive must be reformatted, or the OS is upgraded, the OCX must be uninstalled and reinstalled, it fails to mention that you ...

For over two decades, Eye of GNOME (often shortened to EOG) was the silent workhorse of the GNOME desktop environment. It wasn’t flashy, but it did exactly what most people expected: double-click a ...

Microsoft is deactivating support for ActiveX in its Microsoft 365 Office package. In April, the Windows versions of Microsoft Words, Excel, PowerPoints and Visios will no longer run ActiveX by ...

Microsoft 365 will start blocking ActiveX by default The “powerful” tool put users at risk of remote code execution Users won’t be able to create or interact with ActiveX objects Microsoft has ...

Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three decades ago, in 1996, ...

The VLC media player includes an ActiveX control that you can embed into your PowerPoint presentations. PowerPoint natively supports certain video and audio formats, but VLC can play many other ...

Microsoft has announced that ActiveX support will be switched off by default with the next Microsoft Office versions. This means that the end of ActiveX components, which are considered to be ...

Microsoft Is Disabling Default ActiveX Controls in Office 2024 to Improve Security Your email has been sent Microsoft has been on the warpath against legacy Office features that are providing entry ...

In context: Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996 during Windows 95 days. So, in technological terms, it's ancient. Redmond designed it as a developer framework, allowing users to embed interactive ...

When Microsoft Office 2024 launches in October, ActiveX will be turned off by default, according to Bleeping Computer. The change affects desktop versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Visio, and ...