A reader sent us an e-mail recently (see below) about the fact that we keep old reviews on the site, even if they're no longer particularly relevant. Some other readers have asked similar questions about this, so I think it's worth explaining our reasoning.
I'm sitting in an office surrounded by racks of old PC magazines, some dating back to 1992. They are very rarely opened, but occasionally I may want to find out the average price of a hard drive in 1995, for example, to see how things have changed. Or maybe I'll be thinking of buying a new product of some kind and will want to read a few reviews of that company's earlier products.
On the Web it's so much easier to keep older articles because they take up no physical space. So we leave old reviews online, just in case anyone's interested. Judging by the traffic to these older reviews, at least a few people do find them occasionally useful.
As for the 'compare prices' and 'buy securely online' components, these are added automatically to every review. Some readers will have noticed that these links don't yet go straight to actual products - they go to product categories instead. We're working with our partners on this, and we hope to have direct product linking for the majority of products reviewed on the site within the next two months.
Alex Cruickshank Editor, IT Reviews
>>>
Many sales for this, are there?
Cybergeddon 2000 (Cybergeddon) year 2000 BIOS fix - 09/08/1999 With just over four months to go until the beginning of a new millennium, there are still plenty of non-compliant PCs out there. PCs which may either fail to correctly 'roll over' from 31st December 1999 ...
Compare prices Buy securely online