Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with over 25 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

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Gates Gets It Right About Steve Jobs, Microsoft (Premium)

In an interview with CNN this past weekend, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates looked back on…

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Programming Windows: Visual Basic Takes Over the World (Premium)

To understand why Visual Basic was such a sensation, consider again how horrible it was…

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Programming Windows: Visual Basic Beginnings (Premium)

“In many ways, the Windows environment has been very hostile to the developer.” -- Microsoft…

Windows 1.11 is a Promotion for “Stranger Things”

Last week, Microsoft began mysteriously teasing the first version of Windows on Twitter. Now we…

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Programming Windows: Microsoft Basic (Premium)

Today, Microsoft is most closely identified by its Redmond, Washington campus and the market dominance…

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Programming Windows: Hello, Microsoft Basic (Premium)

In researching the history of Microsoft Basic, I realized I had forgotten something: We need…

Microsoft Creates a Hub for All Insider Programs

Microsoft has quietly posted a new hub for all of its Insider programs called Microsoft…

Corel Acquired for Over $1 Billion

Techcrunch is reporting that Corel has been acquired by private equity giant KKR for over…

Major Cuphead DLC Release Delayed to 2020

StudioMDHR announced today that it has delayed the release of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course…

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Programming Windows: Hello, Visual Basic (Premium)

Before discussing BASIC and Microsoft’s various versions of the language, I thought it would be…

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Microsoft, Transparency, and You (Premium)

After pointlessly making us wait for months to discover what Windows 10 version 19H2 was…

Microsoft Issues Ebook Refunds

As it promised last week, Microsoft has begun issuing refunds to customers who purchased ebooks…

A Windows 10 Field Guide Update

Now that Microsoft has finally come clean on its plans for Windows 10 version 19H2,…

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Programming Windows: Windows API Wrap-Up (Premium)

At Build 2019, I surmised that Microsoft had killed the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), its…

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Spammers (Premium)

I start the morning the same way every day: Wake up, drink coffee, and read…

Google’s Fuchsia Developer Website Quietly Goes Live

Though the firm rarely comments on it publicly, Google is known to be plotting an…

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