were compared using PC Labs printer benchmarks. The publication also took on a series of editorial causes over the years, including copy protection (the magazine refused to grant its coveted Editors' Choice award to any product that used copy protection) and the "brain-dead" Intel 80286 (then-editor-in-chief Bill Machrone said the magazine would still review 286s but would not recommend them). PC Magazine was a booster of early versions of the OS/2 operating system in the late 1980s, but then switched to a strong endorsement of the Microsoft Windows operating environment after the release of Windows 3.0 in May 1990. Some OS/2 users accused of the magazine of ignoring OS/2 2.x versions and later. (Columnist Charles Petzold was sharply critical of Windows because it was more fragile and less stable and robust than OS/2, but he observed the reality that Windows succeeded in the marketplace where OS/2 failed, so the magazine by necessity had to switch coverage from OS/2 to Windows. In the April 28, 1992 issue PC Magazine observed that the new OS/2 2.0 was "exceptionally stable" compared to Windows 3.x due to "bullet-proof memory protection" that prevented an errant application from crashing the OS, albeit at the cost of higher system requirements.) During the dot-com bubble, the magazine began focusing heavily on many of the new Internet businesses, prompting complaints from some readers that the magazine was abandoning its original emphasis on computer technology. After the collapse of the technology bubble in the early 2000s, the magazine returned to a more traditional approach. See also Macworld PC World DOS Power Tools References External links Archived PC magazines on the Internet Archive Digitized PC magazines on Google Books Monthly magazines published in the United States Video game magazines published in the United States Arabic-language magazines Magazines published in Belgium Biweekly magazines published in the United States Magazines published in Brazil Magazines published in Bulgaria Chinese-language magazines Online computer magazines Defunct computer magazines published in the United States Computer magazines published in the Netherlands Computer game magazines published in the Netherlands English-language magazines Magazines published in Greece Greek-language magazines Home computer magazines Magazines published in Israel Magazines established in 1982 Magazines disestablished in 2009 Magazines published in New York (state) Magazines published in Mexico Online magazines with defunct print editions Portuguese-language magazines Magazines published in Romania Monthly magazines published in Russia Computer magazines published in Russia Video game magazines published in