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 has reminded customers about the ongoing deprecation of VBScript in Windows, explaining what to do with legacy VBA projects. From time to time, Microsoft deprecates legacy components in ...

Microsoft has quietly revealed it will retire the VBScript language from future versions of Windows. It will still be available for now as a feature on demand for developers who still need it. Back in ...

Microsoft is moving ahead with its plan to eradicate VBScript from the web. On August 13, 2019, in the next Patch Tuesday update, the company will disable the technology by default on Internet ...

On the next Microsoft Patch Tuesday, coming on August 13th, Microsoft will disable VBScript by default in Internet Explorer for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. This is part of Microsoft's initiative starting ...

Microsoft is moving to make computer users safer and to help eliminate the risk associated with exploits that rely on VBScript for older versions of Windows. The software giant has announced that in ...

The recently-patched flaw could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Researchers have discovered that the Darkhotel APT is ...

Microsoft released a security advisory Monday describing a zero-day vulnerability involving some older Windows versions and VBScript when used with Internet Explorer. The vulnerability permits a ...

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 released advanced hunting queries (AHQs) and a PowerShell script to find and recover some of the Windows application shortcuts deleted Friday morning by a buggy Microsoft Defender ASR rule.