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

Arm Revenues Surged 47 Percent in Q1

Arm Revenues Surged 47 Percent in Q1

Arm Holdings announced that it earned a net income of $224 million on revenues of…

ChromeOS is Getting a New App Mall

Google quietly launched a new app discovery experience for ChromeOS called App Mall that links…

Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant

Adobe Launches Acrobat AI Assistant

Adobe announced today the immediate availability of its Acrobat AI Assistant, an add-on subscription for…

ChromeOS: Android, Linux, and Web Apps, Just Not in That Order

ChromeOS Flex lets you run Linux and Web apps, but if you move to a…

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Thinking About iPad (Premium)

The iPad is the only reasonable choice for those who want a consumption tablet. But…

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Review

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra delivers a superior display, best-in-class performance, and a stellar multi-camera…

Disney+

Disney+ and Hulu Profitable as ESPN+ Slide Continues

As part of its latest quarterly earnings report, The Walt Disney Company announced that Disney+…

Google Pixel 8a

Google Announces the Pixel 8a at $499

Surprise! Google announced its mid-range Pixel 8a smartphone today, ahead of its Google I/O developer…

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Stardock Brings ChatGPT to Object Desktop

Stardock today announced a major update to its Object Desktop application suite for Windows 10…

Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Annual Revenue Up 4 Percent, Switch Sales Down 12.6 Percent

Nintendo reported its financial results for the fiscal year that ended March 31 and separately…

Amazon Kindle in a library of books
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Re-readable (Premium)

Finding the perfect book is difficult enough, but finding a book you want to read…

The overly-ripe banana
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From the Editor’s Desk: Right? (Premium)

Are you willing to do the right thing for others even if it inconveniences you?…

Proton Pass

Proton Adds Account Monitoring to its Password Manager

Proton today announced that it is adding a suite of online account security protections to…

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Respecting Choice, Star Wars, and Windows 11 (Premium)

Happy May the 4th! I'm investigating the third-party utilities that force Windows 11 to respect…

ChromeOS Flex: The Flexibility and Complexity of Linux Apps

ChromeOS Flex doesn't support Android apps, but it does support a full Linux environment. And…

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Qualcomm Delivers Flat Earnings in Q1 but Predicts Solid Growth in Q2

Mobile chipset giant Qualcomm announced that it earned a net income of $2.3 billion on…

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