PCMag Turns 40!

Latest PCMag Turns 40!

• In 2001, Were We Right About the Future of Technology?

  21 years ago, we made some educated guesses about how technology would unfold. We're living in that future now: How did our predictions hold up?

  3 years, 6 months By Michael J. Miller
• A Visual History of Windows

  Over its 40 years, PCMag has covered every version of Microsoft's operating system. Like you, sometimes we loved it, and sometimes we didn't. Let's take it back to MS-DOS to see how Windows has evolved.

  3 years, 7 months By Michael Muchmore
• The 20 Biggest Software Flops of All Time

  It weighs nothing and often requires dozens or even hundreds of people to make. And sometimes software fails spectacularly.

  3 years, 7 months By K. Thor Jensen
• We Found the OG Tech Influencer

  Back in 1987, Brian Dewey used PC Magazine as an invaluable resource for his job as “PC Brand Specifier.”

  3 years, 7 months By Carol Mangis
• An Ode to PCMag: A Personal Computing Legacy

  I was PC Magazine's editor-in-chief for 14 years, leading the publication through its heyday as the most influential computer magazine in print. And boy, was it a blast.

  3 years, 7 months By Michael J. Miller
• 40 Years of PCMag: An Illustrated Guide

  What a long, strange...yeah, let's just get to reliving four decades of ups and downs punctuated by milestones in the personal computer industry and our coverage of them.

  3 years, 7 months By Eric Griffith
• The Biggest Hardware Flops of All Time

  For 40 years, we've reviewed thousands of outstanding technology products. These are not among them.

  3 years, 8 months By Eric Griffith
• Read the Charter Issue of PC Magazine From 1982

  Four decades ago, no one knew exactly where technology would take us. We just knew the IBM PC was here to change everything.

  3 years, 9 months By Eric Griffith
• From Floppies to Solid State: The Evolution of PC Storage Media

  Remember Jaz and Zip discs? Since the debut of the IBM PC, there have been many ways to store your data, and if you're geeks like us, you care about this sort of thing.

  3 years, 9 months By Eric Griffith
• A History of PCMag, and the Tech Industry, in 6 Objects

  We take a look back at some of the seminal tech products and inventions that grew up alongside PC Magazine.

  3 years, 9 months By Max Eddy
• Inside Computer Stores of the 1970s and 1980s

  As part of PCMag's 40th-anniversary celebration, here are some rare scenes from the early days of personal computer shopping.

  3 years, 10 months By Benj Edwards
• 1982 vs. 2022: Has Technology Really Become More Affordable?

  Hard drive prices are down by a factor of 400,000 (!) from PC Magazine's first year, but one critical tech category continually creeps up in price .

  3 years, 11 months By Sascha Segan
• Bill Gates on the Next 40 Years in Technology

  In our first issue, PC Magazine interviewed the 26-year-old founder of Microsoft about building the original IBM PC. Four packed decades later and we still have questions.

  3 years, 11 months By Wendy Sheehan Donnell
• Happy 40th to Us!

  As PCMag celebrates four decades of industry-leading technology journalism, our top editor reflects on what drives us.

  3 years, 11 months By Wendy Sheehan Donnell