Recently, Microsoft is constantly using new technologies to refresh internal applications. For example, it uses Rust instead of C/C++ to write Windows drivers; it abandons the Electron framework and uses Edge WebView 2 to rewrite Teams; WordPad stops updating, and the official recommendation is to use Microsoft Word or Windows Notepad; the web version of the Microsoft Store ditches the old React code base and replaces it with a modern web version using Shoelace, Lit, Vite and a C# ASPNET backend…
Now, the tech giant has added a new member to the list of “Deprecated Features in Windows Clients” — VBScript. Microsoft plans to phase out VBScript, which has been used for nearly 30 years, in future versions of Windows. “Initially, VBScript on-demand features will be pre-installed for seamless use until you are ready to deprecate VBScript until it is completely removed.”