It’s that whole back-to-school season, which means parents are probably wondering if they have to buy their college-bound kids a brand new PC or they can wring another year out of the old one.

This article was updated at 12:16 on Friday, June 12, to correct the Windows 7 Professional version information. People love to pick on Microsoft, and often rightly so. The software giant is directly ...

Bottom line: If your Windows 7 Pro PC isn't part of an IT domain (think corporate environments), Microsoft will start sending you pop-up notifications from next month and remind you (again) to bite ...