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

Dynabook Announces New Tecra Laptops

Following the release of new Portégé portable PCs earlier this month, Dynabook is announcing a…

Hacking Group Claims to Have Stolen 37 GB of Microsoft Source Code

The hacking group LAPSUS$ claims to have accessed internal Microsoft systems and stolen 37 GB…

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FTC Requests More Information from Microsoft and Activision Blizzard

An Activision Blizzard regulatory filing reveals that the FTC has asked for more information about…

Roku OS 11 Finally Adds Personalization Features

Roku today announced Roku OS 11, which adds some long-overdue personalization features, including a personal…

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Programming Windows: Software + Services (Premium)

Most didn’t appreciate it at the time, but the 2008 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was…

Google Finally Brings March Feature Drop to Pixel 6 Series

Two weeks after it headed to other supported Pixel handsets, the March Feature Drop is…

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The Future of Computing is … a Tablet? (Premium)

After years of pushing Chrome OS on tablets, Google now claims that Android tablets are…

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Programming Windows: The Mojave Experiment (Premium)

Apple’s “Get a Mac” TV ad campaign reached new heights when they began attacking Longhorn…

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Ask Paul: March 18 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Here’s another great set of reader questions---with some consistent concerns, go figure---to kick…

Samsung Launches New Galaxy A-Series Handsets

Samsung today announced new Galaxy A33 5G, A53 5G, and A73 5G midrange smartphones, giving…

Google Releases Android 13 Developer Preview 2

Five weeks after the release of Android 13 Developer Preview 1, Google has issued a…

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Google Has a New Strategy for Stadia (Premium)

At its Google for Games Developer Summit on Tuesday, Google confirmed rumors that it is…

Microsoft is Making Major Changes to its Partner Program

Microsoft will rename its Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) to the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP)…

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Now What? (Premium)

While pumping gas the other day, I was bothered by the suddenly high price, but…

Start11 Continues to Improve the Windows 11 Taskbar

I think it’s safe to say that the Windows 11 taskbar ranks among this platform’s…

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The iPhone SE Makes Tech Reviewers Crazy (Premium)

As a consumer of tech reviews, you may rarely if ever consider how difficult it…

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