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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Report Details Google’s Embarrassment Over AI Flub

A CNBC report describes the reactions that frustrated Google employees had in the wake of…

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Ask Paul: February 10 (Premium)

Happy Friday! This week’s Ask Paul comes to you from my temporary and sad lair…

Sonos Revenues Grew 1 Percent in Q4

Despite a difficult economy, smart speaker pioneer Sonos reported that revenues for the quarter ending…

GitHub is Laying Off 10 Percent of Staff, Going Fully Remote

GitHub revealed today that it will lay off 10 percent of its workforce of 3,000…

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During Microsoft’s AI presentation this week, Yusuf Mehdi described how the new Bing differentiates from…

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Disney+ Reveals Its First-Ever Subscriber Decline

Disney+ lost 2.4 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022, the first time the…

Google Issues Android 14 Developer Preview 1

Google today released the first developer preview for Android 14, which builds on Android 12L…

Microsoft is Bringing Adobe Acrobat PDF to Edge

Microsoft announced today that it is partnering with Adobe to bring Acrobat PDF capabilities to…

Zoom to Lay Off 1300 Employees

Zoom announced that it will lay off 15 percent of its workforce, or about 1300…

Mastodon Continues to Lose Users

Usage of Mastodon has dwindled over the past two months, with monthly active users plummeting…

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Sony is Fighting Microsoft Subpoena in Activision Blizzard Case

Predictably, Sony is doing everything it can to not respond to a Microsoft subpoena that…

Nintendo Revises Switch Sales Forecast

Three months after it last revised its Switch sales forecast downward, Nintendo has once again…

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This is Windows 12 (Premium)

The AI wars are on, with Microsoft and Open AI on one side and Google…

Microsoft Updates its .NET Language Strategy

Almost three years after it said that it would no longer add new features to…

Google Takes on ChatGPT with Bard

Google today announced a limited public beta of a new conversational AI service that it…

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From the Editor’s Desk: Tech Addiction (Premium)

Our magical, connected devices give us so much that we rarely pause to consider what they’re stripping…

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