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

Planting a flag on that hill
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From the Editor’s Desk: Tribe (Premium)

Tribalism is a very human need to belong to something bigger than ourselves individually. But…

Advertising is everywhere
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Advertising is Winning. We Need to Keep Fighting (Premium)

I often feel like we're part of a vast experiment to see how much enshittification…

Arc Search for iPhone

Arc Announces Arc Search, Releases iPhone App

The Browser Company, makers of the alternative web browser Arc, this morning announced Arc Search,…

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook Plus

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook Plus Review

With its versatile convertible form factor, the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook Plus delivers a…

Xbox Cloud Gaming on the iPhone

Apple Now Allows Game Streaming Apps in the App Store Worldwide

Here's some good news that was lost in the blizzard of news and commentary surrounding…

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Digital Decluttering: Photo Consolidation by the Numbers (Premium)

This morning, I finished cleaning up the photo collection I fully consolidated last week after…

First-run experience in Windows Setup version vNext

A Quick Look at Windows Setup in Windows vNext

I'm thrilled to discover that Microsoft is finally going to update the Windows Setup first-run…

Microsoft 365 admin console with Teams features outages

Microsoft Teams Experiences a Worldwide Outage

On Friday, Microsoft acknowledged and began remediating a massive Teams outage that impacted customers worldwide.

Fossil watches

Fossil Exits the Smartwatch Market

Fossil confirmed last night that it is exiting the smartwatch market to focus on traditional…

Microsoft Edge 121

Microsoft Edge 121 Arrives with Several New Features

Microsoft has released version 121 of its Edge web browser, adding several new features for…

Russian hacker

Microsoft Explains Recent Hack in More Detail, Offers Advice to Customers

One week after it disclosed that a state-sponsored Russian hacking group infiltrated its corporate systems,…

It's like they made it just for me
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Ask Paul: January 26 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Let's kick off the end of another busy and momentous week a bit…

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Intel Revenues Grew 10 Percent in Q4 Amid PC Sales Rebound

2023 was a financial bloodbath for Intel, but the microprocessor giant finally saw a rebound…

Project IDX

Google Brings Android Emulators, iOS Simulators, and More to Project IDX

Google today announced several enhancements to Project IDX, its experimental AI-powered cloud-based developer IDE.

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Brave Improves Leo AI Performance with Mixtral

Brave announced today that it has integrated the Mixtral 8x7B LLM with the Leo AI…

Google Cloud + Hugging Face

Google and Hugging Face Announce AI Partnership

Google and Hugging Face today announced a strategic partnership in which developers can access the…

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