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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Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” is Now Available

Linux Mint has released the next major long-term support version of its popular Linux distribution…

Windows 11 version 24H2

Microsoft Delivers New Windows 11 24H2 Build to the Release Preview Channel

For the first time in over a month, Microsoft has issued a new build of…

Windows 11 Start

Microsoft Belatedly Delivers Windows 11 22H2/23H2 Week D Preview Update

It's two days late, but Microsoft today delivered a June Week D preview update for…

Doom (2016)
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A Few Thoughts on Portable PC Gaming (Premium)

In the early 1990s, the PC became inevitable as a platform thanks to several unrelated…

Bing generative search preview

Microsoft Brings Generative Search to Bing in Early Preview

Last night, Microsoft revealed that it has begun testing a new generative search experience in…

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How the Mighty Have Faceplanted (Premium)

In the 1990s, Microsoft destroyed many once-great companies. These days, they're just committing suicide. Case…

Google

Alphabet/Google Revenues Jumped 14 Percent in Q2

Google's parent company Alphabet reported it earned a net income of $23.6 billion on revenues…

Netlix sucks
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Netflix Sucks and So Does Spotify and All the Rest (Premium)

In an ideal world, we would pay companies for the products and services we use…

Gaming PCs based on 13th Gen Intel Core desktop processors

Intel Admits to Core Processor Problems, Will Issue Patch

Microprocessor giant Intel took the rare step this week of admitting to a flaw in…

Spotify earnings

Spotify Delivers Another Blockbuster Quarter

Spotify subscriber growth easily beat estimates in the quarter ending June 30, as the streaming…

A victory for cookies everywhere

Bowing to Regulatory Pressure, Google Abandons Plans to Kill Third-Party Cookies

After four years of delays, Google has finally abandoned its plans to replace third-party cookies…

Windows kernel: Safe or not?
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Not a Great Look (Premium)

Something has been nagging at me since Microsoft blamed the EU for the CrowdStrike outage.…

Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 15-inch

Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Generation 15-Inch Review

After years of waiting, months of anticipation, and several weeks of use, I am excited…

Microsoft repair tool for CrowdStrike issues

Microsoft Issues Repair Tool for PCs Impacted by CrowdStrike Outage

Microsoft issued a software download that creates a USB-based repair tool to unwind the problems…

Windows Recovery

CrowdStrike Outage Has Roots in Microsoft’s Antitrust Problems

Microsoft this morning raised an interesting point about the CrowdStrike Internet outage that continues to…

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Modernizing .NETpad: Settings, UI Changes, Spell Check, and More (Premium)

It's been a whirlwind week of rapid improvements to .NETpad: Settings is done, the menus…

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