It says nothing about vb.net because it is disregarding it.
>But it still says nothing about Microsoft's current and continued support of VB in .NET, which is the title of the thread.

Doesn't matter - vb.net is on the way out. Numbers don't lie and vb.net adopters are few and far between at this point and it's not encouraging, given that article and others, to take it up as a new language either.
>When quoting articles and making assumptions, one must keep timing in mind and determine if things had changed since then.