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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FIDO Alliance is Standardizing Passkey Portability

As expected, the FIDO Alliance is standardizing how password and credential managers can make passkeys…

Adobe Firefly video generation

Adobe Announces Firefly Video Model, More AI Advances

At its Adobe MAX conference today, Adobe announced major AI-based advances across its flagship creative…

Thurrott.com Swag Store

Testing the Thurrott.com Swag Store!

We're in Mexico, so this is absolutely the wrong time to test this, but what…

iOS 18.1 Lets You Easily Change Your Apple Account’s Primary Email Address

While many look forward to iOS 18.1 for the first Apple Intelligence features, this next…

Google is Adding OneDrive Migration Capabilities to Workspace

Google is Adding OneDrive Migration Capabilities to Workspace

Google has issued an open beta of a new OneDrive migration capability that's open to…

If Microsoft designed street signs
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Ask Paul: October 11 (Premium)

Happy Friday! This is a particularly good set of reader questions in my opinion, and…

Xbox app on mobile

Microsoft to Bring Xbox Games to Android

Thanks to Google's epic loss in Epic v. Google, Microsoft will let Android users play…

Windows 11 version 24H2

Microsoft Issues Release Preview Builds for Windows 11 23H2, 24H2

Microsoft today shipped Release Preview builds for Windows 11 versions 23H2 and 24H2 that provide…

AMD Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series

AMD Launches Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series Processors for Commercial AI Laptops

Intel isn't the only chipmakers with new silicon today: AMD has announced its Ryzen AI…

Ubuntu 24.10

Canonical Celebrates 20 Years of Ubuntu with 24.10 Release

Canonical today announced the immediate availability of Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole, the latest release of…

Arc browser comes to Windows

Arc Browser is Now Native on Windows 11 on Arm

The Browser Company announced today that its Arc browser is now available natively on Windows…

Paul at TEC 2024 in Dallas
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From the Editor’s Desk: Stories I Wanted to Tell (Premium)

Last week, I spoke at a tech conference for the first time since before the…

Proton Pass Family

Proton Announces Proton Pass Family

Proton has expanded its Proton Pass password management solution to include a Family plan that…

.NET 9 RC2

Microsoft Releases .NET 9 Release Candidate 2

With one month to go until the final release, Microsoft has delivered the second and…

New OneDrive

Microsoft Announces Major Updates to OneDrive

During an online event today, Microsoft announced several advances coming soon to OneDrive across various…

Passkey improvements coming to Windows 11

Microsoft Announces Passkey Improvements for Windows 11

Windows 11 supports passkeys, but only in the most basic way imaginable. But that's about…

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