Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books. He is the owner of Thurrott.com and the host of three tech podcasts: Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell, Hands-On Windows, and First Ring Daily with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows from 1999 to 2014 and the Major Domo of Thurrott.com while at BWW Media Group from 2015 to 2023. You can reach Paul via email, Twitter or Mastodon.

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Fortnite is coming to Windows 11 on Arm

Epic Games and Qualcomm are Bringing Fortnite to Windows 11 on Arm

Epic Games is working with Qualcomm to bring *Fortnite* to Windows 11 on Arm this…

Native PC games on Google Play Games

Google Play Games Announces Major Expansion on PC

Google announced today that it is expanding Google Play Games on PC to support native…

New features in Gemini

Google Updates Gemini with More Personalization, More Features

Google Gemini is getting personal, starting with your Google Search history, and it's getting several…

Copilot for Gaming concept

Microsoft is Bringing Copilot to Xbox

Copilot for Gaming is an AI-powered assistant that will help players strengthen their skills, manage…

Lip-Bu Tan

Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO

Intel announced today that its board of directors has selected Lip-Bu Tan, a former board…

Sonos apps

Report: Sonos Cancels Set-Top Box

The Verge reported today that Sonos canceled plans to sell its first video product, an…

Report: FTC to Move Forward with Microsoft Antitrust Probe

Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will proceed with its antitrust probe…

Stardock Fences 6 Beta

Stardock Announces Fences 6 in Beta

Stardock today announced a beta version of Fences 6, a major update to the Windows…

Woody

I never met Woody Leonhard in person, but he could not have had a bigger…

Google Gemma 3

Google Launches Gemma 3 Family of SLMs

Google today announced its third-generation Gemma 3 family of AI small language models (SLMs) along…

Pocket Casts for the Web

Pocket Casts is Now Free on Windows, Mac, and Web

Pocket Casts announced that its flagship podcasts player is now free on Windows, Mac, and…

Google Optimizes ChromeOS for Microsoft 365

Google Optimizes ChromeOS for Microsoft 365

Google highlighted some of the work it's done to optimize the Microsoft 365 experience on…

Anthropic 3.7 Claude

Google Quietly Acquired 14 Percent of Anthropic

Court documents obtained by The New York Times show that Google quietly acquired a 14…

Baby Steps Forward in the Web Browser User Experience
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Baby Steps Forward in the Web Browser User Experience (Premium)

The innovative Arc browser was apparently too much of a leap for many. But are…

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.NETpad 2025: Something Old, Something New (Premium)

As I build out all the functionality required by multiple documents and tabs, I keep…

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Microsoft is Killing the Remote Desktop App for Windows

Microsoft announced today that it is replacing the Remote Desktop app for Windows with the…

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