Microsoft stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely 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 some space widely used among system administrators for automation work until it was eclipsed by PowerShell, which was 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 Microsoft Internet scripting Information Service,” Redmond says in its help documentation.
Unfortunately, Microsoft was never able to convince other browser manufacturers to support VBScript, and so outside of Microsoft-only environments, web developers preferred JavaScript.
