On July 26,
1996
Microsoft announced its Decision to Transition ActiveX
Technologies To an Independent Standards Body.
See this press release which is available from February 20, 2007
of the WayBack Machine web archive
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Machine (archive.org)
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On September
16, 1996
Microsoft Announces Industry Meeting To Map Out Transition of
ActiveX Technologies
Invites Customers, Independent Software Vendors and Platform
Vendors to Determine Format of Future Independent Standards Body
for ActiveX; Meeting Set for Oct. 1 in New York City
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On October 3,
1996
ActiveX Stakeholders Choose The Open Group To Drive Direction of
ActiveX in the Future
Decision Is Result of Vote in First Meeting of ActiveX
Stakeholders in New York Oct.1
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On October 17,
1996
Microsoft Delivers ActiveX on the Macintosh
Beta Release of ActiveX SDK for Macintosh Enhances Cross-Platform
Support for ActiveX
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The Open
Source Active-X standard was document AX01 and was stored as the
Open Group's COM/DCOM Reference Guide
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page that hosted the standard, but the standard itself does not
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