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Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Now would be a great time for everybody to dust off their VBScript skills and start offering contracting hours to the tens of thousands of companies that rely heavily on it for daily operations. Make yourself a mint porting scripts from 1996 into a modern language, or even PowerShell if you must.