(Which have been working fine all this time, BTW.)
These pages are actually jscript (a variant of javascript), but we probably need to understand this to mean that’s going away as well.
If they're only killing VBscript and not the wscript.exe/cscript.exe scripting host, then Windows probably will still run the jscript variation of a script.
wscript and cscript since XP days and especially 7 have pretty much always been capable of running either pure ES3 or ES5. I think now we're just going to lose the VB style com objects.
But I really don't think we can count on all the related .dlls/COM objects to keep getting support after what is probably their main interface is killed off.
It just doesn't make sense to kill off just vbscript and not most/all of the other stuff that went along with it. I really doubt it's mainly about the language... I think it's about all that script-host/classic asp/COM stuff.