Is Microsoft killing the script host or the script itself?

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.