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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Ask Paul: February 18 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and welcome to another mammoth installment of Ask Paul with a great set…

Roku Revenues Are Up 33 Percent

Roku reported that it earned a profit of $380 million on revenues of $865 million…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fix the Maximize Bug (Premium)

Here’s a quick fix for one of the bugs in .NETpad: It doesn’t correctly remember…

Microsoft Releases .NET 7 Preview 1

Microsoft today announced the first preview release of .NET 7, along with previews of ASP.NET…

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Programming Windows: Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek Interview (Premium)

In January 2004, Joseph Jones and I interviewed Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek, two of…

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Programming Windows: It’s Not Going to Work (Premium)

In 2004, Microsoft finally realized the inevitable: Longhorn wasn’t just running late, it was impossible.…

Quick Look: Google Chrome OS Flex

Yesterday, Google announced the first preview of its CloudReady-based project, Chrome OS Flex. So I…

New Windows 11 Experiences Are Now Available

Microsoft announced the release of some minor new Windows 11 features, two new apps, and…

Surface Laptop 5 to Finally Embrace Modern AMD Processors

A new leak suggests that the next Surface Laptop 5 will go where no Surface…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fork Me (Premium)

When I made the C#/Windows Forms version of .NETpad available on GitHub in late January,…

Opera is Bringing Emojis to the Address Bar

Opera announced today that its web browser is the first to support emoji-based web addresses,…

OnePlus Announces OxygenOS 13

After announcing last year that it would move to a unified Android version with Oppo,…

Microsoft Celebrates 20 Years of .NET

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched the first version of .NET alongside Visual Studio .NET,…

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Programming Windows: Hello, WinFX, Avalon, and XAML (Premium)

For developers, it was a unique pleasure seeing Don Box and Chris Anderson write Longhorn…

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Programming Windows: A Lap Around Longhorn (Premium)

Jim Allchin’s PDC 2003 keynote, called “a lap around Longhorn,” focused on the nuts and…

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Programming Windows: Geeks Bearing Gifts (Premium)

At 8:00 am on October 27, 2003, Microsoft opened the doors to Hall A at…

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