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The Xwidget engine is likely to stop working within the next 18 months or so. This is due to Microsoft taking the decision to make the running of their vbscript package as a feature 'disabled by default' whereas at the moment it is installed and 'enabled by default' on all Windows systems. VBscript is a programming language based upon VB6 and it has been a useful vector of attack for malware writers. Therefore, MS has decided to disable it at some point in the near future.
I imagine, going by other timescales of deprecations from Microsoft that it will be within a year to 18 months. Some time after that it is likely that VBscript will be removed altogether but that might not be for a few years yet.
The result is that the Xwidgets I created may simply stop working at some point. They don't actually use VBscript, being written in jscript instead (a somewhat similar scripting language) but the Xwidget engine relies on the sort of components that MS will be disabling.. I suggest you use the brand new VB6 versions instead.
