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"Craig Koller" wrote in message
news:cwkollertwo-F39B8D.13014911042008@news.giganews.com...
> Misleading headline from your good buddies at Computerworld at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4cuol5
>
> From the article:
>
> "Microsoft Corp.'s technology, which is used to create add-ins for
> Internet Explorer, accounted for 79% of the 239 plug-in bugs discovered
> between July and December of 2007, Symantec said. The plug-in with the
> next-highest number of flaws was Apple Inc.'s QuickTime, which had just
> 8% of the six-month's total."
>
> So although Apple's contribution is 10% of what ActiveX's is, they're
> used in the same context. C'mon guys ...

Well, ActiveX is IE's native plug-in system. Isn't QuickTime delivered as an
ActiveX control in IE? Flash too?

Perhaps the original study just meant "other Active-X plug-ins", but it sure
sounds confused.