What is COM?
COM stands for Common Object Model but commonly known COM is a binary-interface Software device used to operate computer software components. COM was launched in the year 1993 by Microsoft Company to enable a computer software to understand binary programming language to execute inter process communication. COM can be found in various forms like UMDF, Com+, OLE, DCOM, etc. COM has got large number of advantages for the Software developers as they can use COM to merge a large number of computer components to develop applications and to get large number of Benefits of Windows services. COM has got the features that it can be workable on various types of Computer languages like C, C++, Java etc.
COM Features
COM has the capacity that it can be used to make a large number of Windows Applications functional. Com can be in many Windows application programs like Media foundation, Direct shows, Windows portable tools etc. COM is mostly used in
Microsoft Office to that enables the word files to create links to various files in Microsoft Excel and also helps a user to perform multiple operations to make the work more easier. COM works just like a compiler that changes the user language to binary machine language to help the machine to communicate to various Computer components to provide best results to the user. COM provides a large number of features in Microsoft Office to help a user to perform number of operations without having any trouble.