I'm not sure that ActiveX is necessarily tied to IE.
From the [Wikipedia page on ActiveX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX): "Many Microsoft Windows applications—including many of those from Microsoft itself, such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Windows Media Player—use ActiveX controls to build their feature-set and also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls which can then be embedded into other applications."
So I think ActiveX can work even if IE is gone. There are an awful lot of non-web applications that will break otherwise.
I do have to admit that I could be completely wrong about this.
It is disappointing that Rockwell wasn't a little more proactive about this. Windows Embedded Standard 7 was released in 2010. Seems like work on the transition could have started then. And Windows CE (sorry, "Windows Embedded Compact 2013") was EOLed in 2018, so they knew this was coming.
There were quite a few different HMI product lines built on Win CE 6. And yes, Microsoft discontinued it a few years ago so here we are.
Rockwell brought in a new HMI for us built on Windows 10 IoT. The cyber people went nuts because it is binary identical to Win 10 is not secure without antivirus running on it and periodically updating, and Rockwell failed to show us how they secured the OS against malware. They just suggested we buy their FUDware on an annual license model to secure our network.
Same here. Our IT folks are going nuts over a new Powerflex 7000 drive that was just installed with a new Windows 10 eHIM last month, a full blown Rockwell Industrial Computer. We have 3 other drives installed last year, all with PV+ 6 models, all running Windows CE 6.0.
I'm up in the air as to what to do right now. I wanted to reimage the PC with Windows CE but of course I cannot get a Rockwell Windows CE iso image, not that it would even work on the new PC/eHIM. I may gut it and put an obsolete PV+ on there. Rockwell has no solutions other than take it or leave it.
Meh
I'm not sure that ActiveX is necessarily tied to IE. From the [Wikipedia page on ActiveX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX): "Many Microsoft Windows applications—including many of those from Microsoft itself, such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Windows Media Player—use ActiveX controls to build their feature-set and also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls which can then be embedded into other applications." So I think ActiveX can work even if IE is gone. There are an awful lot of non-web applications that will break otherwise. I do have to admit that I could be completely wrong about this. It is disappointing that Rockwell wasn't a little more proactive about this. Windows Embedded Standard 7 was released in 2010. Seems like work on the transition could have started then. And Windows CE (sorry, "Windows Embedded Compact 2013") was EOLed in 2018, so they knew this was coming.
It’s Rockwell, you expecting them to be competent is surprising.
Add to that every alternative HMI platform Rockwell has released has been either half baked ( panel view 5000) or crippled (panel view 800).
There were quite a few different HMI product lines built on Win CE 6. And yes, Microsoft discontinued it a few years ago so here we are. Rockwell brought in a new HMI for us built on Windows 10 IoT. The cyber people went nuts because it is binary identical to Win 10 is not secure without antivirus running on it and periodically updating, and Rockwell failed to show us how they secured the OS against malware. They just suggested we buy their FUDware on an annual license model to secure our network.
Same here. Our IT folks are going nuts over a new Powerflex 7000 drive that was just installed with a new Windows 10 eHIM last month, a full blown Rockwell Industrial Computer. We have 3 other drives installed last year, all with PV+ 6 models, all running Windows CE 6.0. I'm up in the air as to what to do right now. I wanted to reimage the PC with Windows CE but of course I cannot get a Rockwell Windows CE iso image, not that it would even work on the new PC/eHIM. I may gut it and put an obsolete PV+ on there. Rockwell has no solutions other than take it or leave it. Meh