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

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…

Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 First Impressions

The ThinkPad Z series reimagines Lenovo’s venerable product line for the 21st century, with a…

Hands-On: HP 965 4K Streaming Webcam

The HP 965 4K Streaming Webcam is a $199 peripheral that transforms online meetings and…

Humble Games Titles Coming to Game Pass Soon

Microsoft announced this morning that several new Humble Games titles are coming to Game Pass…

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Ask Paul: August 26 (Premium)

Happy Friday! There’s some interesting news buried in here, so let’s kick off the weekend…

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Enough Already: First Steps (Premium)

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore. I’m referring, of…

Hands-On with the Acer Aspire Vero

The Acer Aspire Vero hits at the exciting intersection of repairability and recycling and it…

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