Computer Weekly was last week crowned the UK's Campaigning Magazine
of the Year for an unprecedented second consecutive year in the
industry's annual awards for editorial excellence.
Judges of the 2002 awards , run by the Periodical Publishers
Association (PPA) described as "brave" and "stunning" our
successful campaign to delay the introduction of Microsoft's
controversial new software licensing regime.
The campaign, co-ordinated with UK user groups and individual
users, resulted in Microsoft postponing the introduction of the new
rules from October 2001 to July 2002, giving users breathing space
to decide how to respond.
Last year
Computer Weekly won the same award for its
campaign to show that computer failure, rather than pilot error,
could have caused the Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of
Kintyre in 1994, in which 29 people were killed, including top
Northern Ireland intelligence officers.
Over the past three years
Computer Weekly has been more
successful than any other magazine at the PPA awards, winning four
trophies, including Business Magazine of the Year in 2000.
The editorial campaign award is hotly-contested as it is open to
all the UK's business and consumer magazines. This is the first
time that it has been won by the same magazine two years in
succession.