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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Atari Buys Intellivision Brand

Atari announced that it has acquired the Intellivision brand and certain Intellivision game titles from…

Tip: Upgrade to Windows 11 Version 24H2 Right Now

Tip: Upgrade to Windows 11 Version 24H2 Right Now

Microsoft made Windows 11 version 24H2 available in ISO form this past week, and that…

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Ask Paul: May 24 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and Happy Memorial Day if you're celebrating. It was a BIG week, of…

Satya Nadella at the Copilot+ PC launch event
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What’s Old is New Again (Premium)

To sell AI-powered Copilot+ PCs to a wary public, Microsoft this past week engaged in…

Microsoft is obsessed with the MacBook Air

Microsoft is Obsessed with the MacBook Air

I posted a short video showing each time Microsoft referenced the MacBook Air M3 during…

Lenovo earnings Q1 2024

Lenovo Earnings Up 9 Percent in Q1 as Firm Looks to AI PCs

The world's biggest maker of PCs reported that it earned a net income of $248…

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Nvidia Delivers Record Revenues in Q1, Up 262 Percent YOY

Nvidia reported today that it earned a net income of $14.9 billion on revenues of…

End of Windows 10

RunAsRadio #933: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott

Two old guys talk about Windows AGAIN? Richard brings back Paul Thurrott for the tenth…

Windows 11 Recall feature

Windows 11 Recall is Not a Privacy Concern

Sitting in the audience Monday as Microsoft unveiled a new Windows 11 feature called Recall,…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022

Build 2024: Microsoft Ships Visual Studio 2022 17.10

At Build 2024 today in Seattle, Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2022…

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Build 2024: .NET Announces Updates for AI, Web, Cloud-First, Cross-Platform, and More

At Build 2024 today, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 9 Preview 4 and a…

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Build 2024: Phi-3-Vision Brings Multimodality to Microsoft’s Open SLM Family

At its Build 2024 developer show, Microsoft announced that its first multimodal SLM, Phi-3-vision, is…

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Build 2024: Microsoft to Update the Windows 11 Developer Experience

During its Build 2024 keynote, Microsoft revealed several updates to the Windows 11 developer experience…

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Windows Copilot Runtime Isn’t a Runtime, and WPF is Back, Baby (Premium)

During Monday's Microsoft AI event, Pavan Davuluri threw out an unexpected term, Windows Copilot runtime,…

Build 2024: Microsoft Partners with Khan Academy on AI in Education

Build 2024: Microsoft Partners with Khan Academy on AI in Education

This morning at Build 2024, Microsoft announced a partnership with Khan Academy to spread the…

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Build 2024: GitHub Copilot Comes to Visual Studio as Visual Studio Code for Education Goes GA

Microsoft announced two major updates for its Visual Studio family of developer tools at its…

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