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

Members of the Microsoft Edge team outlined some of the changes in a blog post, explaining some of the features that would be dropped and why. Among other things, the new browser lacks support for ...

Many old technologies and APIs, including ActiveX controls, will no longer be supported by Microsoft's new Edge browser. Edge will replace Internet Explorer as the default browser in Windows 10.

Microsoft confirms that the ActiveX has been discontinued in the Edge browser, which means the browser will not support the companys own Silverlight web-b ...

Microsoft Edge, the browser formally known as Project Spartan to be bundled with Windows 10, will ditch ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects (BHO) in favour of HTML5 and JavaScript.

According to Microsoft, this issue occurs because, by design, ActiveX controls are not supported in Microsoft Edge. Edge is the default browser in Windows 10, with Internet Explorer provided to ...

Microsoft Nixes Ancient ActiveX Support In Windows 10 ‘Edge’ Web Browser by Rob Williams — Sunday, May 10, 2015, 11:33 AM EDT Comments ...