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Comment by fulladder

10 hours ago

I think I remember learning COM object programming in the late 1990s, and Longhorn would still have been an active project at that time. Been a long time, though, so maybe I'm mistaken.

Yes, and?

COM history traces back to OLE, introduced in Windows 3.0 replacing DDE.

.NET was designed as COM replacement, however the way things went down was something else.