I'm posting this here and in the programmers' forum, since it's both a programming issue and a system administration issue. I want to create a batch script in Windows XP that will do the following: 1.

Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script or ...

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 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 ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...