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

HP earnings

HP’s PC Business Grew 3 Percent in Quarter

HP announced that it earned a net income of $600 million on revenues of $12.8…

Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash

Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are Generally Available

Google today released its Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash large language models in stable…

Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16 Gen 9

Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16 Gen 9 Review

Aimed at creators, developers, and power users of every kind, the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i…

New features for Android

Google Adds 7 New Features to Android

Google today announced several new features for supported versions of Android for phones and Wear…

Copilot as an app

Windows 11 Monthly Preview Update Brings Copilot as an App

Microsoft delivered its monthly Week D preview updates for Windows 11 a day late, yesterday,…

HP 960 Ergonomic Wireless Keyboard

HP 960 Ergonomic Wireless Keyboard First Impressions

I may have finally found a replacement for my beloved Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard in…

Fitbit Ace LTE

Fitbit Ace LTE is an Always-Connected Smartwatch for Kids

Google today announced Fitbit Ace LTE, an always-connected smartwatch for children in the U.S. with…

Opera on-device AI

Opera Will Soon Offer Over 2,000 On-Device AI Language Models

One month after offering over 150 AI language models in preview, Opera says it will…

This is deceptive
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Deceptive (Premium)

Now that we're in year two of the enshittification era, Big Tech is expanding its…

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is Getting a More Responsive User Interface

The Microsoft Edge team used to talk up performance a lot, but today it's highlighting…

New Sonos app

Sonos Starts Adding Features Back to its App

After disappointing customers with its horrible new app, Sonos has started adding back some of…

2024 Chromebook Plus devices

Google Brings Gemini AI to Chromebook Plus as Partners Add New Devices

New Chromebook Plus buyers will get 12 months of the Google One AI Premium plan…

Opera Aria image understanding

Opera Brings Google Gemini and Image Understanding and Generation to Aria AI

Opera announced it is partnering with Google Cloud to bring the Gemini AI models and…

.NETpad WPF updated with WinUI
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Welcome Back, WPF (Premium)

Build 2024 delivered many surprises, but among the most interesting to me was the unexpected…

Spotify Car Thing

Spotify Discontinues Car Thing

Spotify discontinued its curious Car Thing in-car audio player after barely two years of availability…

Surface Laptop 7 15-inch in black
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Thinking About Surface Laptop (Premium)

As promised, I preordered a Snapdragon X-based Surface Laptop as soon as I could. But…

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