What is "Active X"?

What is "Active X"?

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Active X is one of the many newer web technologies that allows your experience of browsing the web to move away from being a static experience, into something more animated. Active X was developed by Microsoft as opposed to java for example which was developed by Sun Microsystems. Its one of the technologies behind the scenes of the internet that allows for the easy deployment of animated and more active kinds of web content.