Read the Register article and you’ll see why I’m glad to still be using Win 7. No plans to upgrade.
I suspect there are lots of folks like me.
Indeed there are. Quite a few on FR.
But I hope for your own sake that you do as I do with my Win7 machines -- only connect them to the internet briefly to get updates for Defender and the monthly Malicious Software Removal tool. Those are the only updates still available for Win7, but they're worth it.
Other than that, connecting to the internet to do email and browse modern websites with Win7 is like skating naked on thin ice. You have to maintain an extreme level of situational awareness and a high level of paranoia. Because if you accidentally click a bad link, or get fooled into downloading the wrong application, you are screwed.
The good news: If you run Win7 in a VM, and keep regular backup copies of the VM disk, you can "roll back" almost instantly when something goes south.
I’ll be using Windows 7 until new hardware is no longer unofficially supported, and it’s new hardware I need. I’ll otherwise buy new old stock.