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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Opera Browser Operator

Opera Previews a Web Browser AI Agent

Opera today announced Browser Operator, an AI agent that will do things on your behalf…

RIP, Skype
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Throwback: 22 Years of Skype (Premium)

Last week, Microsoft revealed the inevitable and announced it would finally kill Skype. So let's…

Rust in Windows and Azure
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Russinovich: Microsoft is “All-in” on Rust (Premium)

Rust may be controversial in Linux, but there's no such controversy at Microsoft, which has…

Intel fab in Ohio under construction

Intel Delays Ohio Fab Openings to at Least 2030-2032

Intel said today that it has delayed the opening of two new Ohio-based fabs that…

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Ask Paul: February 28 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Here's a quick update on this week's site update, in addition to another…

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Microsoft Issues New Builds for Windows Insider Program Dev and Beta Channels

There are two new builds for those testing pre-release Windows 11 functionality in the Windows…

Dell earings

Dell Revenues Up 7 Percent to $23.9 Billion

Dell reported that it earned a net income of $1.5 billion on revenues of $23.9…

HP querterly results

HP Revenues Up 2.4 Percent to $13.5 Billion

HP reported an operating profit of $984 million on revenues of $13.5 billion in the…

OpenAI GPT-4.5

OpenAI Releases GPT-4.5 Preview

OpenAI today announced a research preview of GPT-4.5, which it describes as its largest and…

Microsoft AI exports

Microsoft Calls on U.S. to Ease AI Export Restrictions

Microsoft has asked the White House to ease the U.S. government's restrictions on AI chip…

Nvidia headquarters

Nvidia Revenues Up 78 Percent to $39.33 Billion

Nvidia reported that it earned a net income of $22 billion on revenues of $39.33…

Putting AI to work
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From the Editor’s Desk: Putting AI to Work (Premium)

Whether this is hypocritical or ironic, or both, I don't know, but I have struggled…

Framework Announces 12-Inch Laptop, 13-Inch AMD Laptop, Desktop PC

Tuesday was a big day for Framework: It announced a new 12-inch laptop, a 13-inch…

.NET Preview 1

Microsoft Releases .NET 10 Preview 1

Microsoft has finally released the first preview of .NET 10 ahead of its final release…

Opera Developer now integrates with Slack, Discord, and Bluesky

Opera Adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to Sidebar

Six weeks after it tested this functionality in Opera Developer, Opera has added Bluesky, Discord,…

Fortnite character on an iPhone

Apple Exec Admits 27 Percent App Store Fee was Likely a Violation of Court Order

Long-time Apple executive Phil Schiller admitted in court that the 27 percent fee Apple imposed…

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