>>Yea, Good point. I am going to check that tomorrow.
>>Also, check under Security -> Custom Level, the "ActiveX & PlugIns" make sure it hasn't been disabled by default.
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>That setting should affect the permissions to instantiate A'Xes and plugins inside IE, not the behavior of IE as an AX in other apps.
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>When I heard the news that IE 10 is the last version, i.e. that IE is officially dead and will be replaced with a different browser written from scratch, I was wondering what will we do if the browser object goes away. Then I understood that it will still be there, just not forced as the default browser, which would mean the browser object will remain. Now I'm not too sure of that.


You are right about that setting.
I think so too. The are not going to introduce a new version of windows that is not going to run legacy apps.