VBScript was not supported in Microsoft Edge and has since then been restricted to specific document modes in IE11, while Windows 10 gained an option to block VBScript code executing in all scenarios. Microsoft in 2017 deprecated VBScript in IE11 as part of a years-long effort to unhitch its browsers from the legacy scripting engine. Microsoft more recently deemed VBScript totally unnecessary, along with ActiveX, because the default on the web today is JavaScript, which is supported by all major browsers. SEE: 20 pro tips to make Windows 10 work the way you want (free PDF) But it was only supported in IE on the client side. VBScript, which is based on Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language, emerged from Redmond in pre-Google 1996 as a scripting language for web developers. The move will happen by way of cumulative updates for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 in August's Patch Tuesday updates, cutting off a preferred target of North Korean hacking group DarkHotel.
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