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| Categories | Computer magazines |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Circulation | 321,000 / issue |
| First issue | November/December 1983 |
| Company | Heinz Heise |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0724-8679 |
c't–Magazin für Computertechnik(Magazine for Computer Technology) is a German computermagazine,published by theHeinz Heise publishing house.
History and profile
[edit]The first issue of the magazine was the November/December 1983 edition.[1]Originally a special section of the electronics magazineelrad,the magazine has been published monthly since December 1983 and biweekly since October 1997. ADutchedition also exists which is published monthly. In addition, since 2008 a Russian licensed-title version namedc’t – Журнал о компьютерной техникеis published in Moscow.[2]
The magazine is the second most popular German-language computer magazine with a sold circulation of about 315,000 (as of March 2011[update];printed circulation: 419,000). With 241,000 subscriptions it is the computer magazine with the most subscribers in Europe.
c'tcovers both hardware and software; it focuses on software for theMicrosoft Windowsplatform, butLinuxandAppleare also regularly featured. The magazine has a reputation of being very thorough, although critics[who?]claim that the magazine has been "dumbed down" in recent years to accommodate the mass market.
One of the numerous projects[3]c'tinitiated is theWSUS Offline Update,[4]a set of scripts to downloadMicrosoft updates,combine it with an install script, and create aCD image.With Offline Update burned to aCDorDVD,a technician can updateWindows 2000/XP/VistaandMicrosoft Office2003/2007 without anInternetconnection. This is especially useful for people with no or slow Internet connections, or not exposing a vulnerable system to the Internet.
A sister magazine,iX,focuses on topics for IT professionals.
Popularity
[edit]c'tbecame widely known in 1995 when it rated the programSoftRAM[5]"Placebo-Software "in a short test. When the German distributor of the program took legal action to forbid publishing this rating,c'tfollowed up with an exhaustive test showing that the program had virtually no effect other than giving false information about system statistics. The subsequent media coverage forced SoftRAM out not only from the German market, but from the US market too.
References
[edit]- ^Williams, Elliot (19 December 2015)."First Edition of German Computer Mag is a Blast from the Past".Hackaday.Retrieved9 January2017.
- ^25 Years c’t A Chronicle,As of: 7 December 2008(in German)
- ^Homepage of the c't projects(in German)
- ^English Article about the c't Offline Update on H-Online by Heise Media UK - a sister company of Heise Deutschland. Written by c't editors-German project homepage
- ^Ingo T. Storm:Verdichtung und Wahrheit.in:c't.Hannover 1995,11, S.50.ISSN0724-8679