Best way to automate tasks in windows

Question

Mac has applescript 'built in' and I've found its pretty nice to work with for automating stuff.

What's the best windows equivalent?

Answer 1

Maybe PowerShell -- but it's really much more powerful than applescript. VBA only exists within specific applications that supply it, such as Excel, not stand-alone.

Answer 2

VBScript and JScript are standard Windows Script Host languages. See Microsoft Windows Script Technologies.