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

Report: More PCs Running Windows XP, 7, and 8 Than Windows 11

A new survey of 10 million Windows devices shows that 1.44 percent of them are…

Amazon Launches its First Original Mobile Games for Kids

Amazon announced today that it has released its first original and ad-free mobile games for…

Microsoft Issues .NET 7 Preview 3, .NET MAUI RC

Microsoft has issued some .NET-related pre-release milestones, among them .NET 7 Preview 3 and the…

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Programming Windows: iPad (Premium)

On Wednesday, January 27, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, realizing his years-long…

iMovie Gets a Big Update on iPhone, iPad

Apple has issued a major update to iMovie on the iPhone and iPad that makes…

DuckDuckGo Comes to the Mac in Beta

DuckDuckGo announced this morning that its privacy-protecting web browser is now available on the Mac…

Critics Say Windows Licensing is Anticompetitive

With Microsoft now offering Windows on Azure, its critics alleged that the firm now makes…

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Programming Windows: Success (Premium)

Windows 7 couldn’t have arrived at a better time for Microsoft: 2009 was a terrible…

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Back to Google Fi (Premium)

After two years with Mint Mobile, I’ve moved my phone number back to Google Fi.…

Google Fi Gets Some Upgrades, Some Price Cuts

Google has lowered the prices of its Google Fi Unlimited plans and has made improvements…

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Programming Windows: Mark Russinovich Interview (Premium)

In January 2010, I visited the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington and interviewed Mark Russinovich…

Microsoft Has No Plans to Let You Move the Windows 11 Taskbar

In an online AMA, Windows 11 team members explained that fixing the limitations it built…

Microsoft Previews Halo Infinite Season 2

It’s been a long time coming, but Halo Infinite Season 2 will debut May 3rd…

Spotify Car Thing Gets Several New Features

Spotify announced today that it has updated its curious Car Thing accessory with several useful…

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Ask Paul: April 8 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Not surprisingly, given the events of this past week, we have a lot…

New Windows 11 Security Feature Will Require a PC Reset

I didn’t pay enough attention to the security announcements that came out of this week’s…

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