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

Edge Quietly Gains a Split Window Feature

Two months after it began testing an experimental “split window” feature for Edge, Microsoft has…

Google is Adding Placeholders to Google Drive

(UPDATED) Google Suddenly Limits Drive to 5 Million Files Per User

Google confirmed that it has silently instituted a 5 million file limit in Drive, even…

Google Releases Nearby Share Beta for Windows

Google has released a beta version of its Nearby Share app for Windows that helps…

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Ask Paul: March 31 (Premium)

Happy Friday! I'm a bit later than usual because we had our house closing today,…

Microsoft Fixes Vulnerability That Compromised Bing and Office 365

Microsoft admitted today that it patched a serious security misconfiguration in its Azure cloud service…

E3 2023 is Canceled

The organizers of the E3 videogame conference have succumbed to the inevitable and canceled this…

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Downsized (Premium)

One month ago, I wrote about how my wife and I were selling the house…

Microsoft Moves to Monetize the New Bing

Microsoft today revealed how it plans to monetize the new AI-based Bing search service with…

Microsoft to Bring Teams Rooms to Surface Hub 2S (Updated)

Microsoft announced today that its Teams Rooms subscription service will be made available to companies…

Microsoft Issues Preview of New Windows 11 Features

In April, Microsoft will issue a cumulative update for Windows 11 version 22H2 that adds…

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Small Bytes: Declarative UI (Premium)

Declarative UI is at least as old as the World Wide Web, but it’s become…

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What’s Old is New Again (Premium)

As a long-time Microsoft follower, it’s fascinating watching the software giant return to its anticompetitive…

Google Seeks to Have U.S. Antitrust Case Dismissed

Arguing that the U.S. Department of Justice has failed to prove it has a monopoly…

Lyft Co-Founders Step Down

Lyft's co-founders--CEO Logan Green and president John Zimmer--will step down from their full-time executive management…

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Apple Ships iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, macOS 13.3

Apple today released big updates for each of its core platforms, with iOS and iPadOS…

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From the Editor’s Desk: 6

Six years ago this coming month, we went from not thinking about moving to moving…

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