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Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they'd create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.