The Microsoft?Windows?Scripting Host is a language-independent scripting host for ActiveX?scripting engines on 32-bit Windows platforms. Windows Scripting Host will be integrated into Windows?98, Windows NT?Workstation version 5.0, and Windows NT Server version 5.0.
Both Microsoft?Visual Basic?Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft?JScript?scripting engines are provided with Windows Scripting Host. Other software companies will provide ActiveX?scripting engines for languages such as Perl, TCL, REXX, Python, and others.
Windows Scripting Host can be run from either the Windows-based host (Wscript.exe), or the command-shell-based host (Cscript.exe).