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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> 
> > It does from a usability perspective, and this is what user interfaces
> > are about.
> 
> Users typically don't create COM objects using drag and drop.

But programmers make it possible to drag and drop by creating COM
objects.  COM is the preferred integration mechanism in the Windows
world (the ActiveX thing is really an extension to COM).

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Ludovic Brenta.