Windows 11: After 16 years of service, Microsoft definitively buries PowerShell 2.0

Microsoft had promised it, it is now on the way: the 2.0 version of PowerShell, in circulation since… 2009, is on the way to being definitively deleted from Windows 11. The news has been spotted in the latest preversions from the operating system, and marks the end of an era as much as a welcome technical clarification.

PowerShell 2.0 disappears from Windows 11: Security, Compatibility and Large Household

From the Windows 11 build 27891 (Canal Canary), PowerShell 2.0 is no longer installed by default. Better still: Microsoft has started to deactivate it completely, with a view to withdrawing it from all editions of the system. This version, long maintained for retrocompatibility, has however been officially obsolete since… 2017.

Why now? Simply because in 2025, no reasonable scenario justifies preserving this relic, as venerable as in risk. PowerShell 2.0 rests on .NET Framework 2.0, does not support the scripts signed in a modern way, and constitutes a potential security fault with each update.

For professionals, this means a little verification if homemade scripts were still based on the syntax or the behavior of the V2. But for the vast majority of people, this suppression will go completely unnoticed. The recent versions of PowerShell – in particular 5.1 and 7.x (PowerShell Core) – are much more powerful, better maintained and compatible with modern environments.

In general, Microsoft pursues a large digital spring cleaning on Windows 11. Functionalities deemed obsolete are gradually deactivated (as a distance office), inherited components go to the hatch (like Device Stage), and the architecture of the system is evolving with a new program that allows you to update any application via Windows Update. An assumed turn to a more coherent, more secure windows … and above all, less congested?

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