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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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Friends & Family Plan Heads to Six New Countries

Microsoft announced today that the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Friends & Family Plan is now…

Microsoft Issues First Preview of .NET 8

Microsoft today announced the release of .NET 8 Preview 1, its next long-term support (LTS)…

Microsoft Fiddles with Bing AI Chat Limits Again

With concerns growing about how its AI-powered new Bing will spread misinformation, Microsoft today said…

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Small Bytes: Windows App SDK (Premium)

The Windows App SDK is Microsoft’s modern app development platform for Windows and an evolution…

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Small Bytes: WinUI 3 (Premium)

The Windows User Library (WinUI) 3 is a user experience (UX) framework for developers creating…

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Twitter to Charge for SMS-Based 2FA

Twitter announced this week that it will make SMS-based two-factor authentication a paid feature of…

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Ask Paul: February 17 (Premium)

Happy Friday! We have a busy weekend coming up with our house going on the…

Lenovo Revenues Fell 24 Percent in Q4

Perhaps not surprisingly, the world’s largest PC maker experienced its worst-ever revenue decline in the…

Microsoft Issues New Builds to the Windows 11 Insider Beta Channel

Microsoft today released two new builds to the Windows 11 Insider Preview, one of which…

Microsoft Now Supports Windows 11 on Arm on Apple Silicon Macs

Microsoft revealed that it now supports running Windows 11 in a virtual machine using Parallels…

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Liar (Premium)

Well, it’s always nice being right about something, but the epic failure of Bing AI…

Microsoft is Moving File Explorer to the Windows App SDK

In an unexpected move, Microsoft said this week that it will transition the Windows 11…

Roku Surges After Beating Financial Expectations

Roku reported a loss of $250 million on revenues of $867 million in Q4 2022,…

Visual Studio Gets a .NET Upgrade Assistant

Microsoft announced a new Visual Studio extension that will help developers upgrade their .NET applications…

GitHub Copilot for Business is Now Available

Microsoft announced today that GitHub Copilot for Business is now generally available, bringing the AI…

Microsoft Improves .NET Framework Updates on Windows 11 22H2

Microsoft announced today that it will finally make updating the .NET Framework less painful, albeit…

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