PC professional

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PC professional

description German computer magazine
First edition April 1991
attitude June 2007
ISSN (print) 0939-5822
Live test lab at Computex 2006 in Taipei

The PC Professionell (also called PCpro in common parlance ) was a monthly computer magazine in Munich, last published by VNU Business Publications Germany . It had a circulation of around 156,000 copies in the first quarter of 2007 and was discontinued with issue 6/2007. Subscribers were offered a title from competitor WEKA-Verlag , which had taken over the subscriber database. The Internet pages were continued by NetMediaEurope Deutschland GmbH and have now been incorporated into ITespresso.de.

Target group and topics

The first edition 4/1991 appeared under the subtitle The magazine for professional PC users . Over the years it became Das Testmagazin with a focus on independent tests in our own laboratories. Were tested, among other motherboards , chipsets , graphics cards , LCD monitors , digital cameras , projectors , printers and multifunction devices , hard drives and DVD burners , software online access and Internet hardware, Web services.

Further focal points were the practice and technology sections with instructions, collections of tips and technical background articles.

The first warflying test attracted particular attention in November 2004 : the testers took a small aircraft to Munich's airspace to check how secure the wireless LANs they had detected were. The shocking realization: Only 124 networks were well secured with WPA , 1,849 networks were only weakly secured with easily crackable WEP and 2,049 networks were not secured at all.

PC Professionell was recently released in three versions: without a booklet CD, with a booklet CD and with a booklet DVD.

publishing company

The publishing house was originally Redwood Press Verlag in Würzburg, which was sold to Ziff-Davis in 1991 . In 1999 the US media group sold the publishing division, which also included PC Professionell , to the US investment company Willis Stein & Partners . In 2000 VNU Business Publications Germany took over the magazine in Munich. In February 2007 the investment company 3i acquired all shares in VNU Business Media Europe, the parent company of VNU Business Media Germany. The previous VNU group was renamed the Nielsen Company . After an unsuccessful resale attempt by the private equity company 3i, the publishing house was closed at the end of June 2007 and its magazines discontinued.

On July 2, 2007, the newly founded joint-stock company NetMediaEurope announced that it had taken over the VNUNET sites in France, Germany, Spain and Italy from 3i and the continuation of the VNUNET, Silicon.fr, The Inquirer (license from Gawker) and Gizmodo websites (License from Gawker) plans. This company belongs to the previous management of VNUNET (Dominique Busso, Laure Chaussin, Pierre Mangin) and the VC company Truffle Capital. Since 2010 the website has been continued under ITespresso.de .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henning Kornfeld: Aus für PC Professionell and Internet Professionell. In: kress.de. April 17, 2007, accessed July 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jens Ihlenfeld: PC Professionell and Internet Professionell before the end. In: golem.de. April 17, 2007, accessed July 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ itespresso.de