Microsoft’s September servicing quietly removes two long‑standing administration tools — the legacy Windows PowerShell 2.0 engine and the WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command‑line) tool — from certain Windows 11 images, a deliberate security‑first move that closes well‑documented...
For Windows power users, administrators, and developers, the slow yet inevitable phase-out of legacy tools is both a challenge and an opportunity. Microsoft's latest move to deprecate PowerShell 2.0 in Windows 11 Insider builds marks one of the more significant steps forward in modernizing its...
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For IT administrators and Windows power users, the transition away from legacy scripting technologies is a watershed moment—none more so than the steadily progressing deprecation of Visual Basic Scripting Edition, better known as VBScript. Microsoft’s decision to phase out VBScript—a language...
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