Standalone Jscript script

From	"Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Standalone Jscript script
Date	2017-06-01 11:15 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ogparl$u3g$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Although I work mostly with VBScript I have no problem writing
Javascript scripts for web pages. What I can't do is get the simplest
standalone jscript to run in Windows 10:

test.js
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alert("Hello, World!");
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I get an error for "object required."

If I try
window.alert("Hello, World!");

or
document.alert("Hello, World!");

I get a window or document undefined error. The only thing I
can get to work is a HTA workaround kluge:

test.hta
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HTA:Application windowstate="minimize" showintaskbar="no">
<script type="text/jscript">
alert ("Hello, World!");
self.close();
</script>
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What am I missing?

-- 
Crash

"I am not young enough to know everything."
~ Oscar Wilde ~

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Standalone Jscript script "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-01 11:15 -0400
  Re: Standalone Jscript script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-01 16:41 +0100
  Re: Standalone Jscript script "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-06-01 17:47 +0200
    Re: Standalone Jscript script "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-01 12:02 -0400
  Re: Standalone Jscript script Martin Honnen <martin.honnen@gmx.de> - 2017-06-01 18:04 +0200
  Re: Standalone Jscript script Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 22:26 +0100

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