Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. The company today (May 30) detailed how the phase-out will occur in three stages, the final ...

Microsoft announced today that it will start deprecating VBScript in the second half of 2024 by making it an on-demand feature until it's completely removed. Features on Demand (FODs) are optional ...

Microsoft has posted some partial timeline plans for the depreciation of the VBScript language. It will start by making the language one of the features on demand (FODs) for Windows 11 24H2. In ...

In a nutshell: VBScript is an active scripting language that's been part of Windows history since Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, and Windows CE. Now, after 25 years on the market, the ...

Microsoft announced this week that it's deprecating the timeworn VBScript — bad news for cybercriminals, for whom it's a favorite tool. In future releases of Windows, VBScript will be available only ...

If you create Web application scripts and you want to make them available for other people to use (whether for a fee or free) then you are pretty much giving away your intellectual property. That is, ...

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...