I wouldn't call it successful, COM is mainly used by Microsoft and pretty much nobody else uses it unless they want to interface with Microsoft's products (Offi

I wouldn't call it successful, COM is mainly used by Microsoft and pretty much nobody else uses it unless they want to interface with Microsoft's products (Office, etc). In any case, yes, this is what i meant with the dynamic part. But the comment i replied to wrote that it made "possible to write applications on Windows and integrate with pretty much anything in it in any language with COM bindings", which - as i wrote - doesn't need COM.