Well, yeah... PC World, like most of the PC/MSDOS/Windows tech press, fell out of love with Microsoft a while ago. Everybody was "Rah-rah Windows" for a long time, until Vista fell on its face. Things got better with Win7, but then Win8 fell on its face; things got better with 8.1. Win10 was supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, and the tech press fatuously talked it up like crazy. Well.... reality arrives eventually.
The tech press is no longer Redmond's "extended marketing&sales force". They're more like Redmond's "extended customer support force". Social media has increased the noise level about Windows problems to an unbearable level. The press now hears the ever-increasing complaints about Win10 always changing (it being a service instead of a finished product); user concerns about privacy; complaints about compatibility, how updates are handled, and so on.
I don't post many threads from PC World (or PC Mag for that matter). I posted some strongly pro-Win10 articles a while back, and was loudly accused of being a Microsoft shill. LOL. More of the time I get loudly accused of being anti-Microsoft. LOL again. Granted, I post a lot of threads from The Register, but they hate -everybody-, more or less equally, so their articles come off balanced, on average. :-)
I personally really like Win7. They'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers. But I also like Linux, MacOS, and a few others. And I find fault with all of them. It shouldn't be a big deal, it's just a computer.
I understand that a company should be criticized when things go awry. However, PC World seems to go out of their way to have much more negative than positive articles about Microsoft or Windows in my opinion. It would be like Outdoor Life having mostly articles about the dangers of going outdoors like hikers getting killed, fisherman drowning, dangers of sunburn, etc. Really? I just wish PC World would be more balanced.