Microsoft Office has supported ActiveX for years as an option for extending and automating documents, but it has also been a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft is finally starting to turn ...

Microsoft Office 2024, the latest version of the company's productivity apps, will be released later this year. In addition to new features, the suite will include various changes, improvements, and ...

Microsoft is frequently lambasted over flaws found in its most popular enterprise wares. A post today on the Microsoft Research & Defense blog explained why Office has become a hacker favorite … ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you’re using Microsoft Outlook Express in Internet Explorer 5.0 for e-mail and you don’t disable the ActiveX Controls feature, someone could send you a message that could wipe ...

Microsoft Corp. today issued “kill bit” updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it’s disabled third-party add-ons in the last four months. One security ...

Follow the steps below to change the color of the ActiveX Control buttons in Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint. We are using Word as an example, but the procedure is identical.: Launch Microsoft ...

A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of ...

Security problems have plagued Microsoft's Internet Explorer for years, and the Web browser continues to suffer from critical vulnerabilities. In fact, Microsoft has known about one of IE's latest ...

In the Internet Explorer 6 security settings, I've noticed that the options for running ActiveX controls and plug-ins include "Administrator approved", "Disable", "Enable" and "Prompt". Is there any ...