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

Microsoft Announces Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro

Today, Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and has made Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic available…

Microsoft Adds Three More Tools to PowerToys

Microsoft released PowerToys 0.62 today, but the big surprise is the addition of three new…

Microsoft Quietly Adds New Visual Effect to Windows 11

Microsoft has quietly updated its Mica “material” for Windows 11 with a more colorful new…

Acer TravelMate Spin P6 Review

The Acer TravelMate Spin P6 is a delightful 14-inch business-class convertible PC with excellent performance…

EU to Require Phone, Tablet Makers to Stock Parts for Years

A coming EU regulation could require hardware to stock parts for smartphones and tablets for…

Here Comes USB4 Version 2.0

The USB Promoter Group this week announced the successor to USB4, which will deliver data…

IDC Now Sees Two Years of PC Sales Declines

After predicting that PC sales would fall in 2022, IDC has revised its forecast and…

Microsoft Posts Windows 11 Version 22H2 SDK, WDK, and EWDK

Microsoft hasn’t announced Windows 11 version 22H2, but it has now posted the RTM versions…

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Ask Paul: September 1 (Premium)

Happy, um, Thursday, and welcome to an earlier-in-the-week-than-usual edition of Ask Paul ahead of the…

HP Envy 16 First Impressions

The new HP Envy 16 replaces the HP Envy 15 I reviewed two years ago…

Arm Sues Qualcomm Because Over Nuvia Licensing

Arm sued Qualcomm today and demanded that it destroy any chipsets it has designed using…

Lenovo ThinkPad X13s: The WOA Software Experience

The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is the first Windows 11 on Arm laptop I’ve tried that’s…

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Enough Already: Whole-House Tracker Blocking (Premium)

If you’re serious about privacy and security, you may want to investigate adding whole-house tracker…

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Windows 8 < Windows 11 (Premium)

How crazy is our world? A user experience lead from Windows 8 actually thought it…

Canonical, Microsoft Bring Ubuntu on Arm to Azure

Canonical and Microsoft today announced the general availability of Ubuntu images on Ampere Altra Arm-based…

Microsoft Finalizes Plans to Fix Unfair Licensing in EU

Responding to a three-year-old complaint, Microsoft today said that it would fix its unfair licensing…

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