> I sat through a conference session in the late nineties trying to understand the difference between an OLE document, a COM object, and an ActiveX control.
To be brutally honest, if you were a serious Windows developer in those days (and you were even the sort who'd have sat through a conference session on the topic); there is absolutely no way in hell you'd not understand the difference between OLE, COM, and ActiveX. Conflating these things as some sort of confusing mess either shows a lack of actual experience, a lack of competency, or a desire to falsely make things seem more confusing than they were to add some meat to an article.
This article dances with some good points, but opening up with this sort of hyperbole (and then ending it with an unabashed AI slop image filled with brand new hallucinated characters of the alphabet) just totally tanks the author's reputation.
To be brutally honest, if you were a serious Windows developer in those days (and you were even the sort who'd have sat through a conference session on the topic); there is absolutely no way in hell you'd not understand the difference between OLE, COM, and ActiveX. Conflating these things as some sort of confusing mess either shows a lack of actual experience, a lack of competency, or a desire to falsely make things seem more confusing than they were to add some meat to an article.
This article dances with some good points, but opening up with this sort of hyperbole (and then ending it with an unabashed AI slop image filled with brand new hallucinated characters of the alphabet) just totally tanks the author's reputation.