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

Firefox 129

Firefox 129 Delivers Improved Reader View, More

Mozilla launched the latest version of Firefox, its flagship desktop and mobile web browser, with…

Nest Learning Thermometer (4th Gen)

Google Announces New Nest Learning Thermostat

Google announced a new Nest Learning Thermostat and some new Gemini capabilities coming soon to…

Intel 14th Gen Core CPU

Intel Expands Core Processor Warranty Extension to Retail Purchases

Intel recently admitted to problems with recent generation Core processors for PCs, but the resulting…

Surface Pro 11 for Business

Surface Laptop 7, Surface Pro 11 for Business Now Available for Preorder

The Business versions of Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 are now available for…

Google loses big in US antitrust case

Google Loses U.S. Antitrust Case, Search is Illegal Monopoly

A federal judge ruled that Google's search engine is a monopoly and that the firm's…

Mind the Gap
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Mind the Gap (Premium)

Windows fans are taking a long-awaited victory lap thanks to the success of the Snapdragon…

Music
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From the Editor’s Desk: Music (Premium)

Music is personal and important, a way to measure the passage of time and mark…

EliteBook 1040 arrow/Page Up and Page Down keys
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Maybe You’re Just Not My Type (Premium)

Laptop keyboards are changing more than ever these days, but some of the change I'm…

uBlock Origin has a Google-sized Manifest V3 problem

uBlocked: As Chrome Transitions to Manifest V3, Ad Blockers Get Less Effective

Users of uBlock Origin have started seeing a warning in Google Chrome that the popular…

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Modernizing .NETpad: Confirmation (Premium)

Not that I needed a reminder of my failings as a software developer, but the…

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Intel Stock Price Plummets Over 25 Percent

Intel's stock price plummeted by over 25 percent in the wake of this week's quarterly…

Lenovo ThinkBook 13x

Lenovo ThinkBook 13x Gen 4 First Impressions

And now for something completely different. The ThinkBook 13x is an elegant ultraportable laptop for…

Nintendo Switch (OLED)

Nintendo Earnings Tank as Market Waits for Next Switch

Nintendo announced that it earned a net income of ¥54.51 billion (about $365 million) on…

Weekend
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Ask Paul: August 2 (Premium)

Happy Friday! We survived a silly outage last night, so I'm more ready than ever…

July Week D Preview Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2

Microsoft Released the July Week D Preview Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2 This Week

It was a week late, but Microsoft finally delivered a July Week D preview update…

Amazon earnings

Amazon Revenues Up 10 Percent to $148 Billion

Online retailing giant Amazon earned a net income of $13.5 billion on revenues of $148…

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