Talk:IUnknown

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[edit] IUnknown is not an ActiveX component.

The sentence "A component which implements IUnknown is sometimes called an ActiveX component" is misleading. An ActiveX component typically supports many other interfaces, usually comes in a specific package, etc. IUnknown is base of all COM components, many of which are not ActiveX components (eg. shell extensions, UMDF drivers, IFilters, you name it). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jachymko (talk • contribs)

I will agree that it is misleading. However, removing that sentence removed every single instance of "ActiveX" from the article including an off-page citation, which is just as bad. A better alternative would be to reword the sentence, which I will do myself tonight sometime if nobody else does. Zab (talk) 23:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)