[wideroots]

If Microsoft kills ActiveX in the new browser, it will force everyone to stop depending on ActiveX. You would be very surprised how many websites outside of the U.S. still depend on ActiveX, and these are critical websites like banking and government. Hence, killing ActiveX support is important to me.

[contextfree]

"Metro" and Windows Phone IE already dumped ActiveX and extension support.

[Silhouette]

Given how unpopular both of those platforms are, I'm not sure you're making a very compelling argument there...