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IE Automatic Component Activation Now Available

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The IE Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) update is now available as part of the April 2008 Internet Explorer Cumulative Update. The "click to activate" behavior, formerly required for ActiveX controls embedded in some webpages, is now permanently removed from Internet Explorer.  For detailed information on IE ACA, see our blog post from last November announcing this update.

This update replaces the IE ACA previews released in December 2007 and February 2008.

Thanks,

Jefferson Fletcher
Product Manager

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  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.drunkenfist.com/304/2008/04/08/rejoice-click-to-activate-and-use-this-control-is-now-dead/

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    Passing along the good news that the 'click to activate' behavior has been removed from Internet Explorer:

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    So this should make it into XPSP3 right right later when it's released??

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    Yes, all versions of IE on all versions of Windows no longer have the Click to Activate behavior.  XPSP3 as well.

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    PingBack from http://edusanver.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/activado-automatico-de-control-activex-en-internet-explorer-ie-aca-disponible/

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    [RANT]And that was forced upon "everybody in the world",because in USA they have software patents... (everybody except users of other browsers!) :-( )[/RANT]

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    If it's been removed - and that seems to be seen as a good thing - plus that was also the default behaviour, so what was the reason it was added in the first place?  And the reason it was added, are those reasons still valid?

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    This is one of the worst licensing agreements Microsoft has ever entered into. Microsoft, Adobe, Mozilla, Sun, & Google should have found a way to encourage the w3c & IEEE to create a new tag to avoid this. I do hope an alternative can be found.

  • goes off and patents the word "AND" *

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    Ce message, qui apparaissait parfois sous Internet Explorer, est voué aux oubliettes depuis la mise à jour de ce mois-ci.

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    Having problems installing 9.0, goes thru process but does not install. Rebooted after install but still does not function. Went to Adobe site and support but to no avail. Any work arounds to install or is this a flaw in IE7?

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    phil: it was there for legal reasons.  A company got an absurdly broad patent for which there was a significant prior art.  unfortunately, it held up in court. @svasutin: a new tag wouldn't have resolved the patent problem. Interesting that no one has sued firefox yet.

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    Having problems installing 9.0, goes thru process but does not install. Rebooted after install but still does not function. Went to Adobe site and support but to no avail. Any work arounds to install or is this a flaw in IE7?

  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2008
    Eindelijk zijn we verlost van de "Click to activate this control" onzin in IE! In de IE7 update van april is deze melding verwijderd! Mooi zo!Meer informatie op een Microsoft Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/08/ie-automatic-compon

  • Anonymous
    April 17, 2008
    Great move! This has been one of the reason that withholds me from using Internet Explorer! I'd better check it out now!

  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2008
    As video becomes easier to produce, more and more people are creating and sharing videso online. Whether you are a professor demonstrating your research, a student working on a film project, or me creating how-to instructions, you've realized that there

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2008
    Passing along the good news that the 'click to activate' behavior has been removed from Internet