Comment on Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery

PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is their own Adobe Flash and it’s good that it is faded out. To obscure in modern times, too many security flaws. Only warm nostalgic memories will remain in 10 years.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is their own Adobe Flash

    No, that was Silverlight. VBS is MS’s JS.

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    • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Whiile true it was their actual flash, based on on install basis and history, silverlight was a blimp on MS history. While flash died slowly off after 2008 as html5 gained ground and plugins fell out of favor (anyone remember java applets?), MS decided to launch their own Plugin into a world that already turned away from this technologies. Classic MS.

      The comparison that VBS is like MS JS is a bit wonky, as JS is breathing and alive, while VBS is not. You also never encounter VBS on a website.

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    • SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      JavaScript from 1999 was Microsoft’s JavaScript. You could also run that through WSH.

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      • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That was JScript. Totally not JavaScript with a moustache.

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• Melkath@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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