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''PC World'' (stylized as PCWorld) is a global
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published monthly by
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. Since 2013, it has been an online only publication. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal technology products and services. In each publication, ''PC World'' reviews and tests hardware and software products from a variety of manufacturers, as well as other technology related devices such as
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s, audio devices and televisions. The current editor of ''PC World'' is Jon Phillips, formerly of ''
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''. In August 2012, he replaced Steve Fox, who had been editorial director since the December 2008 issue of the magazine. Fox replaced the magazine's veteran editor
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, who resigned that spring, after some rocky times, including quitting and being rehired over editorial control issues in 2007. ''PC World'' is published under other names such as PC Advisor and PC Welt in some countries. ''PC World''s company name is IDG Consumer & SMB, and it is headquartered in San Francisco. Some of the non English ''PC World'' websites now
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to other IDG sites; for example, PCWorld.dk (Denmark) is now
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.dk.


History

The publication was announced at the
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trade show in November 1982, and first appeared on newsstands in March 1983;
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set up ''Personal Computer World'' which he later sold to VNU, and established ''
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'' which he sold to Ziff Davis Publishing in the mid eighties. ''
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'' was also acquired by
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. The magazine was founded by
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and Cheryl Woodard, and its first editor was
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. ''PC World''s magazine and web site have won a number of awards from Folio, the American Society of Business Publication Editors, MIN, the Western Publications Association, and other organizations; it is also one of the few technology magazines to have been a finalist for a
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. Many well known technology writers have contributed to ''PC World'', including Steve Bass,
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, Christina Wood,
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,
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, Lincoln Spector,
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, David Coursey, James A. Martin, and others. Editorial leadership has included Harry Miller, Richard Landry, Eric Knorr, Phil Lemmons, Cathryn Baskin, Kevin McKean, and Harry McCracken. In February 1999, ''PC World''s number of paid subscriptions reached a record of 1,000,453. At the time, it was the first and only computing magazine with a monthly release schedule to hit that mark. In April 2005, the show ''
Digital Duo ''PC World's Digital Duo'' was a computer themed US television series that aired on PBS stations in 1999 as ''Digital Duo'' for 26 episodes and returned to broadcast as ''PC World's Digital Duo'' with an additional 26 episodes in 2005. It ran for a ...
'' was slightly
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and relaunched as ''
PC World's Digital Duo ''PC World's Digital Duo'' was a computer themed US television series that aired on PBS stations in 1999 as ''Digital Duo'' for 26 episodes and returned to broadcast as ''PC World's Digital Duo'' with an additional 26 episodes in 2005. It ran for a ...
'', and ran for an additional 26 episodes. As of 2006, ''PC World''s audited rate base of 750,000 made it the largest circulation computing magazine in the world. On July 10, 2013, owner IDG announced that the magazine would cease its thirty year print run. The issue of August 2013 was the last printed of the magazine ''PC World'', future issues would be digital only.


Countries

Based in San Francisco, ''PC World''s original edition is published in the United States however it is also available in other countries (51 in total), sometimes under a different name: * ''PC World'' in Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Brazil, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, India (from July 2006), Kosovo, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, Ecuador. * ''
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'' in Ireland and the United Kingdom. (Another now discontinued magazine called ''
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'' and a ''
PC World ''PC World'' (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. Since 2013, it has been an online only publication. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal tech ...
'' retailer  — neither related to the ''PC World'' magazine  — already exist or existed in those markets.) * ''PC Welt'', is the German language edition. * ''Info Komputer'', is the Indonesian language edition. * ''Kompiuterija'', is the Lithuanian language edition. * ''Thế Giới Vi Tính'', is the Vietnamese language edition (also called ''PC World Vietnam''). * '' Mikro - PC World'', is the Serbian language edition. * '' Мир ПК'', is the Russian language edition.


Controversy

In May 2007, McCracken resigned abruptly under controversial circumstances. According to sources quoted in ''
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'', McCracken quit abruptly because the new CEO of ''PC World'', Colin Crawford, tried to kill an unfavorable story about
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and
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. Crawford responded, calling media reports of McCracken's resignation "inaccurate."
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later reported that McCracken had told colleagues that
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"was pressuring him to avoid stories that were critical of major advertisers." On May 9, Crawford was transferred to another department, and McCracken returned to ''PC World'' until his departure in 2008.Ramon G. McLeod
"Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to ''PCW"''
from ''PC World.com,'' May 9, 2007.


See also

*''
PC Magazine ''PC Magazine'' (shortened as ''PCMag'') is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009. Publication of online editions started in late 1994 and have continued to the present d ...
'' *
WorldBench ''WorldBench'' is a Windows benchmark tool offered by PC World Labs since 2000. The PC World Test Center uses this same tool every month to test contenders for PC World's Top Desktop PCs and Top Notebook PCs charts. WorldBench is also used in conj ...


References


External links


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