I haven't read an issue of PC Week in months, so I can't comment there. However, I find it disheartening to see supposedly serious computer magazines throwing around phrases like "as unintelligable as Unix" only a few pages away from telling you how & when to edit your DOS config.sys file.
     I have not yet found a single person who has switched from DOS to Unix and regretted the move after their first few weeks. The only reason I can comprehend that somebody would be scared of a csh prompt is if they're scared of /all/ command lines. (In a favorite newsgroup of mine which shall go nameless because we'd prefer to stay hidden, those are usually referred to as the "click-and-drool" type.)