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).