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

Please Welcome Russell Smith to BWW Media Group!

This week, we announced that long-time Petri contributor Russell Smith is joining BWW as our…

Microsoft Start is Replacing Microsoft News

Microsoft Start is a new personalized news feed that will be available across mobile, web,…

Windows 11 Tip: Use EdgeDeflector to Enforce Your Browser Choice

Controversially, Microsoft is making it much harder to change your default browser in Windows 11,…

Google Pixel 5a Review

The Google Pixel 5a is a worthy successor to the Pixel 4a with 5G, and…

Those Windows 11 Instabilities Were Caused by a Microsoft Ad

Remember the slippery slope I first mentioned when Microsoft started adding advertisements to Windows 8?…

Microsoft Issues Fixes for Windows 11 Instability

Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels are experiencing massive Start and the Taskbar…

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Ask Paul: September 3 (Premium)

With summer drawing to a close and a big month coming up for Microsoft, it’s…

Windows Subsystem for Android Arrives in the Microsoft Store

You can now (sort of) download the Windows Subsystem for Android, assuming you meet the…

Microsoft Issues Commercial Previews of Windows 11 and Windows 10 Version 21H2

Microsoft today released Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 21H2 to business customers in commercial…

Beta Channel Just Gets Windows 11 Bug Fixes

With the Windows Insider moving on to Windows 11 2.0, the Beta channel is stuck…

Dev Channel Moves Past Windows 11 1.0

A new build of Windows 11 released to the Dev channel is for a future…

Google Expects Record Pixel 6 Sales

Google has never sold a lot of Pixel smartphones, but it expects the Pixel 6…

YouTube Music Has Over 50 Million Paid Subscribers

Multiple reports state that Google’s YouTube Music service now has over 50 million paid subscribers.

DOJ to Launch New Antitrust Case Against Google

Multiple reports state that the U.S. Department of Justice will announce a new antitrust lawsuit…

Qualcomm Announces AptX Lossless Audio

Qualcomm claims that its new aptX Lossless audio format does what was thought impossible: deliver…

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Apple Makes Another Concession to Developers

The dominos keep falling. Thanks to a JFTC ruling, Apple will now allow so-called “reader…

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