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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Apple is Worth $3 Trillion Again

Apple's market cap has exceeded $3 trillion for the second time, but this is the…

Zorin Releases Zorin OS Upgrader Beta

Zorin OS is one of my favorite Linux distributions, but it has to date not…

Hands-On with Windows Copilot (Preview)

Yesterday, Microsoft released the first public version of the Windows Copilot (Preview) to a small…

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Ask Paul: June 30 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Here's a rare fifth Ask Paul in a given month, and the last…

Google News

Google to Remove News Links from Search, News, and Discover in Canada

Following a similar decision by Meta, Google today said that it would remove news from…

Google Pixel Fold: The Morning After

Well, I'm surprised to say that I like the Pixel Fold a lot more than…

Google Pixel Fold First Impressions

While I am an adherent to the "right tool for the job" principle, I am…

Google Pixel Tablet Review

The Google Pixel Tablet is a compelling Android-based alternative to the iPad, but it's an…

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HP Dragonfly G4 First Impressions

The HP Elite Dragonfly debuted three and a half years ago and has been one…

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Welcome to the Nanny State (Premium)

In this episode of Microsoft Knows Best, we're two years into the Windows 11 era…

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From the Editor’s Desk: Hype (Premium)

AI will trigger a productivity boost the like of which we haven't seen since the…

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Ask Paul: June 23 (Premium)

Happy Friday after a depressingly long week. Here's another great set of reader questions to…

Opera for Android gets Aria AI capabilities

Aria AI Comes to Opera for Android

Just days after it released its rearchitected, AI-native Opera One on desktop, Opera has brought…

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Microsoft Filing Claims That Xbox Lost the Console Wars

A Microsoft legal filing in its case against the FTC shows just how badly Xbox…

Hands-On with DuckDuckGo Browser for Windows

As you may have seen, DuckDuckGo finally released a beta version of its web browser…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on Freakonomics Radio

Satya Nadella Talks Microsoft and AI

In an interview with Freakonomics Radio, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses Microsoft sudden dash to…

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