If you search for "Microsoft Excel Automation" you'll find many references
online of how ActiveX is used in other applications to allow the Excel
engine to compute things in a spreadsheet form. Were the same ability
well-documented in LibreOffice, many people would switch as LibreOffice is
free,
Hello.
I'm an humble and unskilled user, but here's my opinion:
- I personally think technologies like ActiveX are a double sword, they
help others to get attached to the Microsoft ecosystem. This technology
isn't an open standard and has potential security risks.
- I see this issue is taken
