{"id":396,"date":"2004-06-08T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/microsoft-to-withdraw-support-for.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-15T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T14:38:50","slug":"microsoft-to-withdraw-support-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/microsoft-to-withdraw-support-for.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to withdraw support for VBscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--108673482456468696-->OK, we&#8217;ve all heard of Microsoft trying to withdraw support for a product (NT 4.0 anybody?), but at a recent partner event they stated that support for VBscript is to be phased out.  Apparently there is a replacement product codenamed Monad, which will allow the scripting of console applications. When I pushed for timescales, I was told that it won&#8217;t be tomorrow, but could be as soon as 12-18 months before VBscript is withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>Expect to see an outcry soon from Windows system administrators everywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, we&#8217;ve all heard of Microsoft trying to withdraw support for a product (NT 4.0 anybody?), but at a recent partner event they stated that support for VBscript is to be phased out. Apparently there is a replacement product codenamed Monad, which will allow the scripting of console applications. When I pushed for timescales, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/microsoft-to-withdraw-support-for.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft to withdraw support for VBscript<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,82],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-windows","tag-scripting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft to withdraw support for VBscript - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/microsoft-to-withdraw-support-for.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft to withdraw support for VBscript - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OK, we&#8217;ve all heard of Microsoft trying to withdraw support for a product (NT 4.0 anybody?), but at a recent partner event they stated that support for VBscript is to be phased out. 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