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

Apple Files Motion to Dismiss U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit

Apple today filed a motion to dismiss the sweeping antitrust lawsuit brought against it by…

Qualcomm earnings

Qualcomm Revenues Up 11 Percent to $9.4 Billion

Mobile chipmaking giant Qualcomm earned a net income of $2.1 billion on revenues of $9.4…

Arm earnings

Arm Revenue Jumps 39 Percent to $939 Million

Arm Holdings announced that it earned a net income of $223 million on revenues of…

Microsoft rising
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Analysis: Microsoft’s FY24 Q4 (Premium)

Microsoft just completed the first full fiscal year of the AI era, and while the…

Hitting the wall
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Modernizing .NETpad: Hitting the WPF Wall (Update: Solved) (Premium)

The WPF version of .NETpad has always been my favorite, but the limitations of this…

Microsoft Revenues Up 15 Percent in Quarter, 16 Percent in Fiscal Year 2024

Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $22 billion on revenues of $64.7…

AMD earnings

AMD Revenues Up 9 Percent in Quarter

Microprocessor maker AMD reported that it earned a net income of $265 million on revenues…

Protect your passwords with a Balrog
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Password Management Basics (Premium)

Because our online accounts hold the key to our identities, finances, and other personal information,…

Modernizing .NETpad: Refactoring the Code
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Modernizing .NETpad: Refactoring the Code (Premium)

This week, I started refactoring the WPF version of .NETpad to make the code cleaner,…

Google Store previews Pixel 9 series

Google Leaks the Pixel 9 Series

Google has always had a problem with Pixel leaks, but the months leading up to…

From Sonos to HomePod
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Look What You Made Me Do (Premium)

Sonos has always been controversial, but this summer's self-inflicted problems, which I now call Sonosgate,…

IdeaPad 5 2-in-1

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 2-In-1 First Impressions

The Lenovo IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 is available in both Intel and AMD variants, but I…

Microsoft Security

Microsoft is Working with the Security Industry to Prevent Another CrowdStrike Outage

Microsoft published a technical deep dive into what went wrong with the CrowdStrike outage and…

HP EliteBook Ultra

HP EliteBook Ultra Review

Don't be fooled by the name: The HP EliteBook Ultra is the Snapdragon X-powered successor…

Wirecutter pulls its Sonos recommendations

Wirecutter Pulls Its Recommendation of Sonos

The new Sonos app is so terrible that the influential Wirecutter reviews site has pulled…

Daisy's favorite place
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Ask Paul: July 26 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and if you were impacted by the CrowdStrike outage this past week, I…

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