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ActiveX, Gillen added, "locked IE into the past" because of its proprietary nature and early success, which Microsoft felt had to be supported with each new IE to please the mostly enterprise customers who relied on the technology. "This is another good example of how Microsoft has been disrupted by the fast-changing industry," said IDC analyst Al Gillen in a podcast recorded during Microsoft's Build developers conference two weeks ago. "The need for ActiveX controls has been significantly reduced by HTML5-era capabilities, which also produces interoperable code across browsers," Microsoft noted on its new Edge development blog. Both are Windows-specific, and so have been relegated to second-class citizenship as a more open, standards-based Internet developed under the aegis of first Mozilla, then later Google and others. While BHOs became synonymous with browser toolbars over time, they also were used by the likes of Adobe, which built its IE in-browser PDF rendering plug-in using the technology.ĪctiveX and BHOs are ancient, harking back to 19, respectively, and have a long history of security and abuse issues. Meanwhile, BHOs were essentially plug-ins that also integrated with the browser. Both are crucial to IE's proprietary add-on and extension framework.ĪctiveX controls were analogous to the add-ons other browser makers, notably Mozilla (Firefox) and Google (Chrome), later offered to extend the functionality of their applications.