The article is poorly written, as shown by Dafydd's link straight from MS, but I'll cop to skimming the article a little too quickly and not picking up on the fact that Windows 7 RTM/Gold is already into extended support and the article is talking about Win 7 SP1.
Not even really sure why this is news, except that the end of XP support is still fairly fresh in a lot of people's memories and now all of a sudden tech "journalists" have "discovered" the product lifecycle info MS has been publishing for decades. No offense to Bob, but this entire article is nothing but click-bait. For home users it means basically nothing, not that the author of the article can even be bothered to figure out that Windows 7 RTM is already into the extended support phase. Anyone who manages a couple Windows Server boxes and relies on Cnet for this kind of information doesn't deserve their job. Not to mention they make a big deal about another non-issue regarding how it can take 200 days to migrate a Windows Server box. That might actually be relevant if there wasn't still another roughly 5.5 years worth of security updates. I'm no mathematician, but last I checked there's around 365 days in any given year, so 5.5x365 seems like it's more than 200. Not to mention any server admin who waits until the last minute to start the migration process should probably find a new career. A good server admin would already have a migration plan in place or at least be working on one and make sure that it has a comfortable margin for error.