Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove scripting entirely language in a future version of Windows. The company announced Monday that VBScript, short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition, has been removed in an update to its "Deprecated features for Windows client" list. "VBScript is being deprecated," Microsoft says. “In future versions of Windows, VBScript will be available as an on-demand feature before it is removed from the operating system.”
VBScript debuted in 1996 and its latest version, version 5.8, dates from 2010. It is a scripting language and for a time was widely used among system administrators to automate tasks until it was overshadowed by PowerShell, which released in 2006.
"Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition brings active scripting to a wide variety of environments, including Web client scripting in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Web server scripting in Microsoft Internet Information Service,” Redmond says in its help documentation.
Unfortunately, Microsoft never managed to convince other program makers tourto support VBScript, and so outside of Microsoft's exclusive environments, web developers preferred JavaScript.
