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.

Paul Thurrott’s Recent Posts

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Google Delays Third-Party Autofill in Chrome on Android

In October, Google announced that it would update Chrome on Android to support third-party autofill…

Windows Setup OOBE in 24H2 as a new cumulative update installation phase

Businesses Will Soon Be Able to Configure Whether Windows 11 Setup Installs Cumulative Updates

Microsoft made a major change to Windows Setup in Windows 11 version 24H2 that adds…

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Ask Paul: February 7 (Premium)

Happy Friday! It almost feels like a reckoning on multiple fronts this week, but there's…

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Amazon Revenues Up 9.5 Percent to $188 Billion

E-tailing giant Amazon reported a net income of $20 billion on revenues of $188 billion…

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GitHub Copilot is Getting Agentic

GitHub Copilot may be the single most useful AI companion I've used, but it's about…

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Sonos Revenues Fell 10 Percent to $551 Million

Struggling smart speaker maker Sonos earned a net income of $50 million on revenues of…

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There’s Nothing Wrong with Notion, So I’m Messing with It (Premium)

Notion has emerged as one of the best apps I use every day. Naturally, I've…

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Arm Holdings Withdraws Qualcomm Complaint

During its financial earnings conference call today, Qualcomm said that Arm Holdings had withdrawn its…

Sonos Restructures, Will Lay Off 200

One day before its next earnings announcement, Sonos announced it would restructure the company into…

Qualcomm Revenues Jump 17 Percent to $11.7 Billion

Chipmaking giant Qualcomm reported a net income of $3.2 billion on revenues of $11.7 billion…

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Google Gemini 2.0 is Now Generally Available

Google announced today that its latest Gemini 2.0 family of AI models is available to…

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.NETpad 2025: A Look Ahead to .NET 10 (Premium)

Microsoft added basic but buggy and incomplete support for Windows 11 theming to WPF as…

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Sonos Preps First Video Product

Before the annus horribilis that was its 2024, Sonos was gearing up for the biggest…

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.NETpad 2025: Preventing Custom Dialog Resizing (Premium)

Taking another break from the multiple tabs support, here's a quick and dirty fix for…

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AMD Revenues Jump 24 Percent to $7.7 Billion

Microprocessor maker AMD reported a net income of $482 million on revenues of $7.7 billion…

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Alphabet/Google Revenues Up 12 Percent to $96.47 Billion

Google's parent company Alphabet announced it earned a net income of $26.5 billion on revenues…

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