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.

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Adobe, Microsoft Make Separate Generative AI Pledges

Adobe and Microsoft have separately announced that they will help protect users of their generative…

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Vivaldi Brings Bing Chatbot to its Web Browser

The Vivaldi web browser will now masquerade as Edge so its users can access the…

Microsoft is Improving the C# Developer Experience in Visual Studio Code

Microsoft has released a preview version of the C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code…

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Google Bard Improved with Implicit Code Execution, Sheets Export

Google announced two improvements to its Bard experimental AI chatbot, implicit code execution and Google…

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Android 14 Hits Beta 3 and Platform Stability

Google announced today that Android 14 has reached the Beta 3 milestone and, with it,…

Tip: Download the Updated Windows 11 Version 22H2 ISO

Microsoft has updated its downloadable Windows 10 version 22H2 ISO to include all of the…

Developer keynote speakers from Apple WWDC, Google I/O, and Microsoft Build 2023
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Developer Story (Premium)

You won't be surprised to learn that Apple's developer story contrasts sharply with the visions…

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Apple WWDC 2023: Hot or Not? (Premium)

Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote was another prerecorded affair with somewhat interesting new hardware and software…

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Apple Announces Vision Pro, its “Spatial Computing” Headset

As expected, Apple today announced its first augmented reality (AR) headset, called Vision Pro, with…

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From the Editor’s Desk: The AI Hallucination No One Talks About (Premium)

You may have seen the story over the weekend about Microsoft killing support for Cortana in…

Brave Picks Up Vertical Tabs

Brave offers a safer and more private web browsing experience than any of its competitors,…

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Microsoft Edge 114 Arrives with Workspaces

Microsoft released version 114 of its Edge web browser last night with the new Workspaces…

Too Little Too Late, Microsoft Voices Support for Cortana

Microsoft Kills Cortana in Windows

Continuing the years-long winddown of its personal digital assistant, Microsoft quietly revealed that it will…

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Three Months Without Xbox (Premium)

On March 2, I turned off my Xbox Series S ahead of our trip to…

Google Adds New Features to Android

Like Microsoft, Google engages in some "continuous innovation" on Android, and it announced some new…

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Ask Paul: June 2 (Premium)

Happy Friday! It was a long short week, if that makes sense, but here's a…

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