PC World

This article is about the electronics magazine. For the former British retailer, see PC World (retailer). For the defunct British magazine, see Personal Computer World.

PC World
EditorJon Phillips
CategoriesComputer magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Total circulation
(December 2012)		355,117 (United States)[1]
First issueMarch 1983; 41 years ago (1983-03)
Final issueAugust 2013 (2013-08) (print)
CompanyIDG
CountryUnited States
Based inSan Francisco, California, US
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.pcworld.com
ISSN0737-8939
OCLC1117065657

PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.[2] 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 still and video cameras, audio devices and televisions.

The current editor of PC World is Jon Phillips, formerly of Wired. 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 Harry McCracken, who resigned that spring,[3] after some rocky times, including quitting and being rehired over editorial control issues in 2007.[4]

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.[5] Some of the non-English PC World websites now redirect to other IDG sites; for example, PCWorld.dk (Denmark) is now Computerworld.dk

  1. ^ "eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. December 31, 2012. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
  2. ^ "IDG Print Publication: PCWorld". Archived from the original on April 1, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  3. ^ "Goodbye, Kind PC World". Archived from the original on September 6, 2011.
  4. ^ "Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to PCW". Archived from the original on October 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "contact Us Archived 2010-01-02 at the Wayback Machine." PC World Communications. Retrieved December 29, 2009.