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For the former British retailer, see <a href="/wiki/PC_World_(retailer)" title="PC World (retailer)">PC World (retailer)</a>. For the defunct British magazine, see <a href="/wiki/Personal_Computer_World" title="Personal Computer World">Personal Computer World</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox hproduct"><caption class="infobox-title fn"><i>PC World</i></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:PCWorld_logo_red_2019.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/PCWorld_logo_red_2019.png/220px-PCWorld_logo_red_2019.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="49" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/PCWorld_logo_red_2019.png/330px-PCWorld_logo_red_2019.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/PCWorld_logo_red_2019.png/440px-PCWorld_logo_red_2019.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="226" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data">Jon Phillips</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Categories</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Computer_magazine" title="Computer magazine">Computer magazine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Frequency</th><td class="infobox-data">Monthly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total circulation<br />(December 2012)</th><td class="infobox-data">355,117 (United States)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First issue</th><td class="infobox-data">March 1983<span class="noprint">; 41 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1983-03</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Final issue</th><td class="infobox-data">August 2013<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">2013-08</span>)</span> (print)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/International_Data_Group" title="International Data Group">IDG</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Based in</th><td class="infobox-data">San Francisco, California, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pcworld.com">www<wbr />.pcworld<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0737-8939">0737-8939</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1117065657">1117065657</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>PC World</b></i> (stylized as <b>PCWorld</b>) is a global <a href="/wiki/Computer_magazine" title="Computer magazine">computer magazine</a> published monthly by <a href="/wiki/International_Data_Group" title="International Data Group">IDG</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2013, it has been an online-only publication. </p><p>It offers advice on various aspects of <a href="/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">PCs</a> and related items, the Internet, and other personal technology products and services. In each publication, <i>PC World</i> reviews and tests hardware and software products from a variety of manufacturers, as well as other technology related devices such as <a href="/wiki/Digital_camera" title="Digital camera">still</a> and <a href="/wiki/Video_camera" title="Video camera">video cameras</a>, audio devices and televisions. </p><p>The current editor of <i>PC World</i> is Jon Phillips, formerly of <i><a href="/wiki/Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a></i>. 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 <a href="/wiki/Harry_McCracken" title="Harry McCracken">Harry McCracken</a>, who resigned that spring,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after some rocky times, including quitting and being rehired over editorial control issues in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>PC World</i> is published under other names such as <b>PC Advisor</b> and <b>PC Welt</b> in some countries. <i>PC World</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s company name is IDG Consumer & SMB, and it is headquartered in San Francisco.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the non-English <i>PC World</i> websites now <a href="/wiki/Web_redirection" class="mw-redirect" title="Web redirection">redirect</a> to other IDG sites; for example, PCWorld.dk (Denmark) is now <a href="/wiki/Computerworld" title="Computerworld">Computerworld</a>.dk </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PC_World&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The publication was announced at the <a href="/wiki/COMDEX" title="COMDEX">COMDEX</a> trade show in November 1982, and first appeared on newsstands in March 1983. </p><p>The magazine was founded by <a href="/wiki/David_Bunnell" title="David Bunnell">David Bunnell</a> and Cheryl Woodard, and its first editor was <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Fluegelman" title="Andrew Fluegelman">Andrew Fluegelman</a>. <i>PC World</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>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 <a href="/wiki/National_Magazine_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National Magazine Award">National Magazine Award</a>. </p><p>Many well known technology writers have contributed to <i>PC World</i>, including Steve Bass, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Tynan" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel Tynan">Daniel Tynan</a>, Christina Wood, <a href="/wiki/John_C._Dvorak" title="John C. Dvorak">John C. Dvorak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Manes" title="Stephen Manes">Stephen Manes</a>, Lincoln Spector, <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Alsop" title="Stewart Alsop">Stewart Alsop</a>, 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. </p><p>In February 1999, <i>PC World</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>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.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2005, the show <i><a href="/wiki/Digital_Duo" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Duo">Digital Duo</a></i> was slightly <a href="/wiki/Rebranded" class="mw-redirect" title="Rebranded">rebranded</a> and relaunched as <i><a href="/wiki/PC_World%27s_Digital_Duo" title="PC World's Digital Duo">PC World's Digital Duo</a></i>, and ran for an additional 26 episodes. As of 2006, <i>PC World</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s audited rate base of 750,000 made it the largest circulation computing magazine in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 10, 2013, owner IDG announced that the magazine would cease its thirty-year print run.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The issue of August 2013 was the last printed of the magazine <i>PC World</i>, future issues would be digital only.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Countries">Countries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PC_World&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Countries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Based in San Francisco, <i>PC World</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>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: </p> <ul><li><i>PC World</i> in Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Brazil, Denmark, Greece, India (from July 2006), Kosovo, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, Ecuador.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/PC_Advisor" class="mw-redirect" title="PC Advisor">PC Advisor</a></i> in Ireland and the United Kingdom, which stopped publication in 2017 (Another now discontinued magazine called <i><a href="/wiki/Personal_Computer_World" title="Personal Computer World">Personal Computer World</a></i> and a <i><a href="/wiki/PC_World_(retailer)" title="PC World (retailer)">PC World</a></i> retailer  — neither related to the <i>PC World</i> magazine  — already exist or existed in those markets.)</li> <li><i>PC Welt</i>, is the German language edition.</li> <li><i>PCW</i>, is the Hungarian language edition.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Info Komputer</i>, is the Indonesian language edition.</li> <li><i>Kompiuterija</i>, is the Lithuanian language edition.</li> <li><i>Thế Giới Vi Tính</i>, is the Vietnamese language edition (also called <i>PC World Vietnam</i>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversy">Controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PC_World&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2007, McCracken resigned abruptly under controversial circumstances. According to sources quoted in <i><a href="/wiki/Wired_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Wired Magazine">Wired</a></i>, McCracken quit abruptly because the new CEO of <i>PC World</i>, Colin Crawford, tried to kill an unfavorable story about <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Crawford responded, calling media reports of McCracken's resignation "inaccurate".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CNET" title="CNET">CNET</a> later reported that McCracken had told colleagues that <a href="/wiki/International_Data_Group" title="International Data Group">IDG</a> "was pressuring him to avoid stories that were critical of major advertisers."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 9, Crawford was transferred to another department, and McCracken returned to <i>PC World</i> until his departure in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PC_World&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output 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