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CHRIS ANDERSON The Founder of Future This company was founded as Future publishing in Somerton, Somerset in 1985 by Chris Anderson with the sole magazine ‘Amstrad Action’. Chris Anderson sold Future to Pearson PLC for £52.7m in 1994 and brought it back in 1998 with Future chief executive Greg Ingham and Apax Venture Partners. And in 2001, Chris Anderson left Future. In November 2009, Future reported a fall in profits from £9.5m to £3.7m (61%) in the fiscal year that ended 30 September WHO IS HE? About Future PLCHistory of FutureOur teamWhat we haveIntroducing our new magazine

Peter Allen Chairman Nial Ferguson Content & Marketing Director Emma Harvey Product & Technology Director Charlie Speight Senior Vice President, Future US Michael Venus HR & Communications Director Jeff Turner Commercial Director for Advertising Paul Layte Commercial Director for Consumer Revenues Zillah Byng-Maddick Chief Executive Officer About Future PLCHistory of FutureOur teamWhat we haveIntroducing our new magazine

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REVIEW: MaximumPC is a magazine published by Future US first issued at August 1996 as ‘Boot’ and at September 1998 as ‘MaximumPC’ in US. It is a English language based magazine on categories of ;Computing’ and updated monthly by our Editor in chief – Tuan Nguyen. So far, we totally published 192,611 MaximumPC. MaximumPC provides an archive of back-issue in PDF format free of charge on our website. Differences from boot When boot was published, it was criticized for being elitist in its approach to product reviews, and for the "price is no object" philosophy of its editors. boot was aimed at a hardcore PC enthusiast audience that was highly advanced in its technical understanding, and prepared to pay top dollar for the best PC hardware. When boot relaunched as Maximum PC, it dropped much of the perceived attitude and focused on being accessible to a wider array of PC users and gamers. boot also featured a monthly column by Alex St. John, (nicknamed "The Saint") regarding the emerging DirectX standard, which he was instrumental in developing at Microsoft, often leading to some controversy in the gaming community on the merits of DirectX vs. OpenGL. His arguments with id Software's John Carmack became famous during this time in the gaming community. More… MaximumPC included information about computing, guide to build your own PC, recommended hardware from experts etc. About Future PLCHistory of FutureOur teamWhat we haveIntroducing our new magazine