Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with over 25 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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25 Years of Windows 95 (Premium)

Microsoft finalized Windows 95 on August 15, 1995 and began selling it to the public…

TikTok Sues the U.S. Government

As promised, TikTok has sued the U.S. government for attempting to ban its social media…

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Google’s New Smartphone Strategy Comes Into Focus (Premium)

Multiple leaks of the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G in recent days provide a…

Microsoft Backs Epic in Fight with Apple

In a new legal filing, Epic Games argues that Apple is threatening its entire ecosystem…

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Gates (Premium)

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has weighed in on the antitrust scrutiny facing Big Tech. His…

Apple Will Not Force In-App Purchases on WordPress

Apple has apologized to WordPress for threatening it unnecessarily and will no longer force it…

Apple’s At It Again, This Time With WordPress

Apple blocked updates to the WordPress blogging app until it added in-app payments for plan…

Google Pixel 4a: The Morning After

Having now spent some more time with the Google Pixel 4a, I’m reminded of the…

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Ask Paul: August 21 (Premium)

Happy Friday! For the penultimate Ask Paul in August, we have another great set of…

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build Brings New Disk Management UI

A new Windows 10 Insider Preview build adds a new disk management interface to Settings…

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Windows 10 Version 20H2 is Just About Done

Microsoft announced today that Windows 10 version 20H2 is ready for commercial validation, one of…

Microsoft Releases TypeScript 4.0

Microsoft has announced the release of TypeScript 4.0, the latest major version of its open-source…

Microsoft Brings WSL 2 to Windows 10 Versions 1903, 1909

Microsoft announced that it has backporting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 to the two…

A $350 Billion "Contribution" to the U.S. economy? No

Publishers Demand Lower Fees in Apple’s App Store

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among the publishers demanding that…

Google Pixel 4a First Impressions

What’s affordable, cute as a button, and comes in a delightful polycarbonate body with a…

Fitbit Claims COVID Detection Success

Fitbit said this week that its fitness wearables could detect COVID-19 in their users before…

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