Laurent Giret

Laurent is a Senior News Editor helping Paul Thurrott with daily tech news coverage since 2022. He's been writing about the technology industry for 10 years, mainly focusing on Big Tech companies. He also was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022 to 2023. You can follow Laurent on LinkedIn, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts

Competition and Markets Authority CMA

UK Launches Investigation Into Microsoft and Amazon’s Cloud Licensing Practices

The UK’s CMA is launching a new investigation into the supply of cloud services in…

Microsoft Teams

New Microsoft Teams Desktop App is Now Available for All Users

The new Teams desktop client that’s been available in preview for a couple of months…

Twitter X Logo

Twitter/X Starts Hiding Headlines From Article Links in Posts

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has started removing headlines from articles shared…

Windows 11 Fall update copilot

New Windows 11 Dev Channel Build Makes Copilot Accessible from Alt + Tab

The Windows 11 Dev Channel build 23560 brings the ability to access Windows Copilot using…

Google Assistant with Bard

Google Teases New Assistant with Bard

Google teased today Assistant with Bard, a new AI-powered personal assistant that will combine the…

Google Pixel Watch 2 Pixel 8 Pro (1)

Google Announces Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel 8 and 8 Pro

Google has officially announced the Pixel Watch 2 and the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8…

Nintendo Wii U

Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Games Will Lose Their Online Services in April 2024

Nintendo announced this morning that it will soon pull the plug for online services for…

Spotify Premium Audiobooks

Spotify Premium Now Offers 15 Hours of Audiobook Streaming in Select Markets

Spotify Premium subscribers in select markets can now stream a catalog of 150,000 audiobooks for…

Netflix Basic with Ads plan

Netflix is Reportedly Planning Price Increases After Actors Strike Ends

Netflix is reportedly preparing to raise the prices of its ad-free plans after the ongoing…

Surface Laptop Studio 2 Surface Laptop Go 3 Surface Go 4

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Laptop Go 3 Are Now Available

The new Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Surface Laptop Go 3 that Microsoft announced two…

Meta Facebook Instagram

Report: Meta is Planning Ad-Free Subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram in Europe

Meta is reportedly planning to give Facebook and Instagram users in Europe the choice to…

October 2023 Xbox Game Pass Forza Motorsport

Forza Motorsport and More Are Coming to Game Pass in October

Forza Motorsport, the next Xbox exclusive racing game from Microsoft headlines the new Game Pass…

iOS Spotlight Search

Apple Could Reportedly Challenge Google on Search

Apple is reportedly planning to bring a new search engine to the App Store, and…

Google CHromebook Plus

Google Introduces New Chromebook Plus Category

Google has teamed up with Acer, Asus, HP, and Lenovo to launch Chromebook Plus, a…

Microsoft AI-powered Bing Satya Nadella

Microsoft Reportedly Tried to Sell Bing to Apple

If Microsoft's Bing chatbot brought the search engine back to the spotlight this year, Microsoft…

Windows 11 PC

Windows 11 Insider Build 23555 is Now Available on the Dev Channel

The Windows 11 Insider build 23555 for Dev Channel testers is out with some bug…

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