Microsoft is finally deprecating vbscript::Review the list of features that Microsoft is no longer actively developing in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Also, wow. There were so many crappy features in there that were never wanted or needed. Glad to see some of that join innynet explorer, vista, and silverlight. Never trust a new MS tech - most are defunct before release.

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      Internet explorer outlasted so many browsers and silver light was good but killed by html5 when browser plugins fell out of favour.

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        Silverlight was never good. Easy to throw together for devs that didn’t want to learn web standards? Sure.

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          Didn’t need web standards in silverlight. The whole thing ran in a container didn’t it? Think of Java applets or whatever they were called or flash even… Just tech that was on its way out already. Silverlight was flash with dotnet and xaml and some people preferred that.

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            It wasnt sandboxed from the DOM, it has enablehtml access and later on tacked on cross domain protections. They did apply a sandbox to the filesystem unless you trusted it.

            There was no fine RBAC or anything. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-049

            Java applets were pretty bad too. Flash and the old quicktime or realplayer were a legitimate need in early days before the standards bodies started moving. Silverlight seemed to be an attempt to stall the standards moving forward.

            I get that some people liked it, but better options were already available, and could run on all devices with regular security updates.