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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Microsoft Details How it is Changing Windows to Comply with the EU DMA

Microsoft has created a Digital Markets Act compliance website that details how it is complying…

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Opera Starts Opera One AI Feature Drops Program

Opera on Friday announced its AI Feature Drops program, which provides Opera One users with…

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Activision QA Workers Vote to Unionize

600 members of the Activision Quality Assurance (QA) team have voted to unionize. Microsoft has…

Sam Altman Rejoins an Expanded OpenAI Board of Directors

Following the conclusion of an outside investigation into his earlier firing and rehiring, Sam Altman…

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Parallels Desktop for Mac is Updated to Version 19.3.0

Parallels Desktop 19.3.0 is now available with improved Windows gaming on Apple Silicon-based Macs and…

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Microsoft Will Support Classic Outlook for Windows Until at Least 2029

This week, Microsoft revealed that it will support the classic version of Outlook for Windows…

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Google Confirms Gemini Nano is Not Coming to Pixel 8

During a live Q&A this week, a Google engineer confirmed that Gemini Nano is not…

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Ask Paul: March 8, 2024 (Premium)

Happy Friday! This is my final Ask Paul from Mexico on this trip, and it's…

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Microsoft Brings AI Capabilities to Teams App Developers

Developers who create apps for Microsoft Teams can now take advantage of new AI capabilities…

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Zorin OS 17.1 is Now Available

A little over two months after the release of Zorin OS 17, Zorin announced today…

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 Review

With its iconic design, incredible build quality, and epic portability, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon has…

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Apple Kills Epic’s Developer Account. Again.

Epic Games revealed that Apple suddenly and without warning terminated its developer account, just weeks…

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LibreOffice Writer is a Viable Alternative to Microsoft Word (Premium)

While I have turned to a Markdown editor to solve the enshittification issues with Microsoft…

Android no longer in Windows
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The End of Microsoft’s Android Fever Dream (Premium)

It's difficult to even understand why Microsoft would bring Android apps to Windows in the…

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We Need to Discuss Microsoft’s Motion to Dismiss the New York Times Copyright Suit (Premium)

Like OpenAI, Microsoft believes it should be free to grow its nascent AI empire by…

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Tip: Twitter User? Disable Audio and Video Calling

Twitter has opened up its audio and video calling functionality to all users. But this…

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