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

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…

Windows App SDK 1.1 Due By Mid-2022

Microsoft quietly revealed that it will ship Windows App SDK 1.1 by mid-year, with multi-window…

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Ask Paul: February 11 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Let’s kick off the weekend a bit early with another great round of…

Disney+ Now Has 130 Million Subscribers

Disney+ ended 2021 with about 130 million subscribers, an annual gain of 37 percent when…

Google Faces Yet Another Antitrust Complaint in the EU

Google faces more antitrust troubles in the EU, with the European Publishers Council complaining about…

Microsoft Offers G Suite Legacy Customers a Deal

Customers of G Suite legacy free edition who are upset that Google just remembered they…

Apple Finally Comments on AirTag Stalking

Apple’s Tile-like AirTag trackers are useful for finding lost items, but stalkers have been using…

Google Releases Android 13 Developer Preview 1

Google has announced the first developer preview of Android 13, which focuses on privacy, security,…

Android 12 Dynamic Color is Coming to More Handsets

Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, realme, Xiaomi, Tecno, and other hardware makers will add Android 12’s…

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