There are several different versions of PC Magazine. The UK edition was taken over by VNU in 2000 and ceased publication in 2002, although they still maintain a website. The columnists moved to Personal Computer World.
PC Magazine UK's launch edition was dated April 1992, and the launch event, in March of that year, was on a scale that no other technology magazine had experienced before, or has experienced since. It was typical of the way that publisher Ziff-Davis conducted its business over the nine years of its presence in the UK.
Prior to the launch, Ziff-Davis UK, headed by MD David Craver, started recruiting technology journalists and columnists nine months before the launch. Star columnists - they were called Fellows - were Peter Jackson and Guy Kewney, and the launch editor was Steve Malone.