''PC Pro'' is one of several

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s published monthly in the

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. Its headquarters is in London. ''PC Pro'' also licenses individual articles (or even the whole magazine) for republication in various countries around the world - and some articles are translated into local languages. , it claimed to be the biggest-selling monthly PC magazine in the UK. ''PC Pro'' is promoted as a magazine for "IT professionals, IT managers and

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s." It is a fairly 'rounded' magazine as it contains information on many different aspects of IT (such as cheap hardware, extreme hardware, software, business, home, retailers) rather than just one of these areas like many UK PC magazines. While it is primarily Windows-focused, it does contain some open source and

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content. The magazine was launched in November 1994. The website was launched in December 1996. On 3 June 2015 Dennis relaunched the PC Pro website as Alphr. The magazine continued to operate under the PC Pro brand, with the two publications occasionally sharing content but otherwise serving different audiences with bespoke content. Each issue comes with a cover disc – either a CD in the £4.49 version or a DVD in the £5.99 edition. The CD contains complete commercial software products (usually older versions) and commercial software trials. The DVD contains these and also a selection of applications which feature in every issue. These regular applications are usually

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. The ''PC Pro'' team also publish a weekly podcast available on the Magazine website and on the

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. In February 2001 they reissued, with new artwork, a free copy of the controversial "Area 51: The Alien Interview" DVD. Future acquired

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and its computing division including ''PC Pro'' in 2021.

Current contributors

* Tim Danton * Barry Collins * David Court * Darien Graham-Smith * Jonathan Bray * Mike Jennings * Jane McCallion * Sasha Muller * Nicole Kobie * Stewart Mitchell * Jon Honeyball * Davey Winder * Paul Ockenden * Steve Cassidy * David Crookes

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''PC Pro'' Spanish Website
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Current contributors

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