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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Amazon Posts Massive Quarter, to Raise Prime Prices

Amazon announced today that it earned a net income of $14.3 billion on revenues of…

Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 First Impressions

With its entry-level ThinkPad E14 Gen 2, Lenovo is offering customers ThinkPad quality for well…

Microsoft Adds More Experience Packs to Windows 11

Microsoft acknowledged Web Experience Packs as part of a blog post explaining how the Insider…

Flutter for Windows is Now Available

Google announced today that its Flutter open-source app development toolkit now supports creating Windows apps.

Microsoft Reportedly Killed HoloLens 3

Business Insider claims that Microsoft has killed HoloLens 3 over uncertainty about the platform’s future.

The Nintendo Switch Has Upended the Video Game Market

Switch is Now Nintendo’s Best-Selling Console of All-Time

As part of its quarterly earnings report, Nintendo revealed that it has now sold over…

Spotify Now Has 406 Million Users

As part of its quarterly earnings report, Spotify said that it now has over 406…

Qualcomm Revenues Beat Expectations

Qualcomm reported a net income of $3.4 billion on revenues of $10.7 billion for the…

PlayStation 5 Sales are Already Slowing

As part of its latest quarterly earnings report, Sony revealed that it sold 3.9 million…

AMD Reports Record Revenues

AMD today reported record revenues for the fourth quarter and full-year 2021, with major gains…

Alphabet (Google) Sees Big Net Income, Revenue Gains

Big Tech keeps rolling, with Alphabet reporting a net income of $20.6 billion on revenues…

Report: Chromebook Sales Grew 13.5 Percent in 2021

The market researchers at IDC say that Chromebooks saw growth in 2021, while sales fell…

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Programming Windows: Freestyle and Mira (Premium)

With the weight of Microsoft’s security problems on his shoulders, Bill Gates delivered a CES…

Microsoft Announces First Game Pass Titles for February

Well, look at that: it’s February already. And so Microsoft has several new titles coming…

Flight Simulator World Update VII Adds Australia Content

Microsoft continues to update Flight Simulator with incredible free content, with World Update VII adding…

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The NYT is the Worst-Possible Home for Wordle (Premium)

For the past few months or so, the indie mobile web game Wordle has taken…

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