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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Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Consolidation is Back on Track (Premium)

After months of experiments and dead-ends, I've finally arrived at a system for consolidating my…

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Amazon Announces Q, an AI Chatbot for the Enterprise

Caught flatfooted by Microsoft's rapid embrace of AI this year, Amazon has finally responded with…

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I’ve Been Using DuckDuckGo Search for Two Weeks and the World Didn’t End (Premium)

Two weeks ago, I configured DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in Brave, which promptly…

Microsoft Releases ML.NET 3.0

Microsoft has announced the release of ML.NET 3.0, its open-source, cross-platform, and .NET-based machine learning…

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IKEA is Expanding Its Smart Home Push with New Smart Sensors

IKEA today announced a new set of smart home sensors that will help its customers…

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UK CMA Provisionally Rules Against Adobe’s Figma Acquisition

The UK Competition and Markets Authority today said that it has provisionally found Adobe's $20…

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Google is Investigating a Drive Data Loss Issue

Google today confirmed that it is investigating a data loss issue reported by multiple users…

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EU Formally Objects to Amazon Acquisition of iRobot

The European Union's European Commission today filed a formal statement of objections related to Amazon's…

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From the Editor’s Desk: Autopilot (Premium)

I spend a lot of my time on autopilot, which is healthy and normal until…

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Tiny11 2311 Fully Supports Windows 11 Version 23H2, Is Even Smaller

Tiny11 is a project aimed at making Windows 11 smaller and less resource intensive and…

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Google Acknowledges Pixel 8 Pro Screen Bumps, Sort Of

This past week, some Pixel 8 Pro users complained that they can see small circular…

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Ask Paul: November 24 (Premium)

Happy Friday! I'm finally done moving and traveling for a bit, so here's a great…

Zoom Revenue Growth Slows to Single Digits

Zoom announced that it earned a net income of $141.2 million on revenues of $1.14…

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HP Revenues Fell 6.5 Percent in Quarter, 14.6 in Fiscal 2023

HP reported that it earned net earnings of $1 billion on revenues of $13.8 billion…

Nvidia Q3 earnings

Nvidia’s Revenues Tripled in Q3

Nvidia reported that it earned a net income of $9.2 billion on record revenues of…

Sonos products, 2023

Sonos to Dramatically Expand Its Product Offerings in 2024

With smart speaker sales cooling, Sonos will dramatically expand its product offerings to include new…

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