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.

Paul Thurrott’s Recent Posts

PC Sales Rose 7.1 Percent in the Second Quarter

Data from Gartner and IDC shows that PC sales jumped over 7 percent in the…

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Ask Paul: July 10 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Here’s a nicely diverse set of questions to kick off the weekend amidst…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Text Zoom, App Name, App Icon (Premium)

This time, we’ll implement .NETpad’s text zooming capabilities, fix the application name, and add a…

Microsoft Brings Kernel Data Protection to Windows 10

A new Microsoft blog post explains how the firm is now using virtualization-based security (VBS)…

Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop

Taking its design cue from the XPS portable PCs, the new Dell XPS Desktop is…

A Tale of Two Laptops

I’m currently reviewing two laptops, the AMD-based HP Envy x360 13 and the Snapdragon-based Lenovo…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Find/Replace (Premium)

For this installment of our UWP project, we’ll implement Find, Find Next, Find Previous, Replace,…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): New, Save, and Save As (Premium)

With File Open and the Save prompt out of the way, we can move forward…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): File Open and Custom Dialogs (Premium)

If you followed along with my series The UWP Files, you will recall that me…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): More Settings (Premium)

In this installment of the UWP Notepad project, we’ll implement the non-font user settings and…

Microsoft Announces New Teams Features, Including Smart Displays

Microsoft is announcing a huge list of new features that are coming to Teams in…

Android 11 Beta 2 Arrives

Google today announced the availability of Android 11 Beta 2 and the platform stability milestone…

Google Partners with Canonical to Bring Flutter to Linux

Google announced today that it is partnering with Ubuntu maker Canonical to bring Linux desktop…

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865 Plus

Qualcomm is delivering an overclocked version of its Snapdragon 865 mobile SoC for devices that…

Intel Announces Thunderbolt 4

Intel announced today that it will succeed the Thunderbolt 3 universal connector with Thunderbolt 4,…

The Windows Cycle with Paul Thurrott – RunAsRadio #705

Richard Campbell chats with Paul Thurrott about the current state of Windows Desktop, and the…

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