Despite Microsoft's ambitions, VBScript never won any approval by third-party browser makers and it was ultimately confined to the Internet Explorer ecosystem.

Microsoft is continuing its long deprecation of VBScript in its Internet Explorer 11 Web browser for security reasons.

Today, Microsoft announced that beginning with the August 13 cumulative updates, VBScript will be disabled by default in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.

On the next Microsoft Patch Tuesday, coming on August 13th, Microsoft will disable VBScript by default in Internet Explorer for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. This is part of Microsoft's initiative ...

Microsoft will be disabling VBScript by default on Internet Explorer 11 with a number of updates for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, the company revealed last Friday.

In a separate announcement, Microsoft confirmed that today's Windows 10 for PCs Insider Preview build in the Fast ring, build 16237, will disable VBScript in Internet Explorer 11 by default.

After the update is applied, VBScript will be disabled by default on Internet Explorer 11 for pre-Windows 10 machines.

Windows 7 and Windows 8 updates scheduled for next Patch Tuesday will disable VBScript in Internet Explorer 11.