And there’s no reason to feel sad about an obsolete product in the final stages of permanent long-term decline going away. But in 2013, with the possible exception of long trips on airplanes which don’t have wi-fi, I simply can’t think of a reason why anyone would want to read a monthly magazine about PCs and related products. I remain proud of the work we did at PCW, and feel inordinately lucky to have spent time there during the boom times for printed computer publications. IDG says it won’t lay off any employees as a result of the print exit the PCW staff will now get to make as useful as it can be, without being forced to tend to a publication which could never be what it once was. (It was called PC World back in my day, and I still wince slightly every time I type the name without a space.) So you might think I’d consider the news of the magazine’s end to be something akin to a death in the family.Īctually, it seems like an unalloyed good to me. I spent thirteen and a half years writing and editing for PCWorld, from 1994-2008, as an employee of its publisher, IDG. The last issue of PCWorld I worked on as a staff member, August 2008
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