PC World Announces 1995 World Class Awards honoring Top PC Products
SAN FRANCISCO — June 15, 1995 — PC World, the world's leading monthly PC publication, today announced the winners of the magazines' 13th annual World Class Awards.
The World Class Awards feature PC products that have been judged "Best in Category" based on a combination of innovation, performance and value. The World Class Award winners were selected by a diverse panel of PC experts, including analysts, user group presidents, consultants, value-added resellers, corporate and government computer buyers and PC World editors and readers. IBM's OS/2 Warp 3.0 was selected as the 1995 Corporate Product of the Year, and products from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft led the balloting in the hardware and software categories with five and 12 "wins" respectively.
"The independent methodology used in determining the World Class Awards makes them more relevant than ever to the user community," said Phil Lemmons, PC World editor in chief. "Our diverse panel of industry experts provides our readers with a more timely and objective analysis of the PC marketplace. We expect the results of this year's awards to help consumers make more informed PC product buying decisions."
Following are the winners of the PC World's 1995 World Class Awards:
Corporate Awards
Category Winner
——– ——
o Product of the year IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0
o Best Mail-Order Company PC Connection
o Best Online Service CompuServe
o Best Service and Support
(Hardware) Compaq, Dell Computer Corp. (Tie)
o Best Service and Support
(Software) Microsoft
o Best BBS The WELL
o Best Internet Access Provider Netcom
Hardware
Category Winner
——– ——
o Business Desktop Computer Dell Dimension XPS P90
o Home Desktop Computer Micron P90 Home MPC
o Network Server Compaq ProLiant 2000
o Laptop/Notebook Computer T4900CT, Toshiba America
o Subnotebook Computer Toshiba Portege T3600CT
o Personal Digital Assistant Sony Magic Link
o Laser/Dye Sublimation Color
Printer Tie between: Fargo PrimeraPro
and Hewlett-Packard Color
LaserJet
o Laser Printer/Black and White Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4
Plus
o Inkjet Color Printer Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 560C
o InkJet Black and White Printer Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 540
o Monitor ViewSonic 17
o Fax-Modem U.S. Robotics Sportster 14
Data Fax Modem
o Graphics Accelerator Board Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM,
Diamond Multimedia
o Sound Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster
16
o Hard Disk Drive Western Digital Caviar AC
31000
o Removable/Portable Drive Iomega Bernouilli 150 Insider
o CD-ROM Drive Plextor 4Plex
o Multimedia Upgrade Kit Creative Labs Edutainment CD
16
o Tape Backup Drive Colorado Jumbo 250,
Hewlett-Packard's
Colorado Memory System
o Optical Drive Pinnacle Micro Tahoe 230
o Scanner Hewlett-Packard ScanJet Iicx
o Input/Pointing Device Microsoft Mouse2.0
o PCMCIA Card XircomCreditCard Ethernet
Software
Category Winner
——– ——
o Word Processor Microsoft Word 6.0 for
Windows
o Spreadsheet Microsoft Excel 5.0
o Database Microsoft Access 2.0
o Applications Suite Microsoft Office Professional
4.3
o Fax Software Delrina WinFax Pro 4.0
o Communications Software DatastormProComm plus 2.0 for
Windows
o Internet Interface/Utility Netscape Navigator 1.0
o Desktop Publishing Adobe PageMaker 5.0
o Font Software Adobe Type Manager 3.0
o Presentation Graphics Software Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0
o Draw Software CorelDraw 5.0
o Image-Editing/Paint Software Adobe Photoshop 3.0
o Operating System Environment OS/2 Warp 3.0, IBM Corp.
o Lan Operating System/Peer-to-Peer Windows for Workgroups 3.11,
Microsoft Corp.
o Lan Operating System/Server-Based NetWare 3.12, Novell Inc.
o Groupware Application Lotus Notes
o Lan E-Mail Package Lotus cc:Mail Desktop for
Windows 2.0
o Utility Collection Norton Utilities 8.0,
Symantec Corp.
o Windows Shell Norton Desktop 3.0 for
Windows, Symantec Corp.
o Backup Software Norton Backup 8.0, Symantec
Corp.
o Forms Software Delrina PerForm for Windows
o OCR Software Caere OmniPage Professional
5.0
o CD-ROM Title-Business Application Quicken 4.0 for Windows,
Intuit Inc.
o CD-ROM Title-Children's Education Encarta 95, Microsoft Corp.
o CD-ROM Title-Reference Encarta 95, Microsoft Corp.
o CD-ROM Title-Adult Game Myst, Broderbund Software
o CD-ROM Title-Child's Game Just Grandma & Me, Broderbund
Software
o Computer-Aided Design AutoCAD, Autodesk Inc.
o Programming Language Visual Basic 3.0, Microsoft
Corp.
o Project Manager Microsoft Project 4.0
o Personal Information Manager Organizer 2.0, Lotus
Development Corp.
o Contact Manager Act! 2.0 for Windows,
Symantec Corp.
o Accounting Software QuickBooks 3.0 for Windows,
Intuit Inc.
o Personal Finance Intuit Quicken 4 for Windows
o Tax Planning/Preparation TurboTax for Windows, Intuit
Inc.
o Game id Doom II, id Software
o Shareware PKZip 2.04g, PKWare
Winner of The 1995 World Class Awards will receive their awards at a celebration hosted by PC World during PC Expo on Wednesday, June 21st in New York City. For more information, please call Sandy Wong at 415/978-3181.
The winner of three Jesse H. Neal Awards for Editorial Excellence from the American Business Press, PC World is the world's largest monthly PC publication with a rate base of one million effective with its July 1995 issue. PC World is published in San Francisco by PCW Communications Inc., a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), which publishes more than 233 computer magazines and newspapers in 65 countries. IDG is headquartered in Boston and has annual revenues of more than $ 1.3 billion and 7,200 employees.
CONTACT: PC World, San Francisco
Lee Doyle, 415/978-3168
or
Cudaback Strategic Communications, Boston, Mass.
Lloyd Benson, 617/478-2330