Windows Script Host (WSH) 5.6 is the new version of the Windows scripting environment that Microsoft bundles with Windows XP. This new environment is also available for Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows Me. You can download the executable from Microsoft's scripting Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting. But before you begin experimenting with the new version, you'll benefit from an overview of the environment's new features.
First Impressions
The first thing you're likely to notice about WSH 5.6 is the unusual version number. The preceding version of WSH was 2.0; why did Microsoft jump to WSH 5.6? Some people guessed that Microsoft wanted WSH to match XP's version number; however, XP is version 5.1 of Windows. Microsoft made the new WSH version number correspond to the version number of Windows Script. WS is the scripting infrastructure that consists of WSH, VBScript, JScript, Windows Script Components (WSC), and Windows Script Runtime. . . .
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