I was looking for an official announcement of the end of life of VBScript but could not find one. Instead I stumbled across the following MSDN blog post with a vague reference: "I believe that it was [at the] IT Forum in Nov 2005 that this was announced." A colorful blog post from Ryan Stemkoski made me laugh, the comments are interesting also. The closest I could find to an official Microsoft announcement was a blog post five years ago by Eric Lippert, who admitted to being the last person to ever add a feature to VBScript, in November 2000.