PC Pro
The PC Professional ( called in common parlance also pcpro ) was a Munich- monthly at VNU Business Publications Germany Computer Magazine. It was discontinued with the issue 6/2007 by the new owner 3i. The subscription took over the WEKA -Verlag. The websites were continued by NetMediaEurope but are now merged into ITespresso.de.
Target group and issues
Was it in the first edition 4/1991 in the subtitle nor solely to the magazine for professional PC users, so it became over the years the test magazine. Thus, the focus was on independent testing in their own laboratories.
A further focal point of PC Professional manifested in headings practice and technology. These included instructions and tip - collections as well as technical background article.
Whether motherboards, chipsets, graphics cards, TFT monitors, digital cameras, projectors, printers, and multifunction devices, hard disks or DVD burner, system, security or multimedia software, web services or online access and Internet hardware - the pcpro Leaders tested almost everything in our own laboratory.
Much attention in November 2004, the first Warflying test: With a small plane, the tester went to the Munich air space in order to check how secure the Wireless LANs are tracked. The horrific realization that only 124 nets were well secured by WPA, 1,849 nets were secured only weakly with easy knackbarer WEP and 2,049 nets were not secured at all.
PC Professionally last appeared in three versions: without cover CD, with cover CD and booklet DVD.
Publishing house
The publication publisher was originally Redwood Press Publishing in Würzburg, which was sold to Ziff- Davis in 1991. Online Holding Ziff Davis Net ( ZDNet ) was acquired by CNET in Europe and in 1999 sold the U.S. media group the publishing sector, which also includes PC Professional belonged. Against the U.S. investment house Willis Stein and Partners 2000 took over VNU Business Publications Germany in Munich magazine. In February 2007, the investment company 3i took over all shares of VNU Business Media Europe, the parent company of VNU Business Media, Germany. The former VNU Group changed its name to The Nielsen Company. After a failed attempt resale by the private equity company 3i of the publishing house was closed in late June and set the magazines. On 2 July 2007 informed the corporation NetMediaEurope newly founded, that it has acquired the sites of vnunet in France, Germany, Spain and Italy from 3i and the continuation of the sites vnunet, Silicon.fr, The Inquirer ( license from Gawker ) and Gizmodo ( license from Gawker ) plans. This company is owned by the previous management of vnunet ( Dominique Busso, Laure Chaussin, Pierre Mangin ) and the VC firm Truffle Capital.
Since 2010, the website will continue to operate under ITespresso.de.