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

Microsoft AI Releases Its First-Ever Copilot Usage Study

Microsoft AI Releases Its First-Ever Copilot Usage Study

Microsoft published the Copilot Usage Report 2025, which it says is the industry’s largest chatbot…

Amazon to Let Authors Remove DRM From eBooks on Kindle

Amazon to Let Authors Remove DRM From eBooks on Kindle

Amazon quietly revealed that it will allow authors to publish their books on Kindle in…

When AI Just Works
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When AI Works ⭐

With Big Tech pushing us onto the AI rollercoaster whether we want it or not,…

De-Enshittifing Windows 11 Version 25H2: Win11Debloat
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De-Enshittifing Windows 11 Version 25H2: Win11Debloat ⭐

I love Tiny11 Builder, but what if you just want to clean up an existing…

Google Photos Gets Redesigned Video Editor on Mobile, More

Google Photos Gets Redesigned Video Editor on Mobile

Google Photos is getting a major set of highlight video-related updates across Android, iPhone, and…

Microsoft Partners on Agentic AI Foundation for Interoperability

Microsoft Partners on Agentic AI Foundation for Interoperability

Microsoft is partnering with Amazon AWS, Anthropic, Block, Cloudflare, Bloomberg, Google, and OpenAI on the…

What I Use: ExplorerPatcher
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What I Use: ExplorerPatcher ⭐

I do like the Windows 11 look and feel, but some app modernization efforts are…

Gartner: All AI Browsers Should be Blocked for Foreseeable Future

Gartner: All AI Browsers Should be Blocked for Foreseeable Future

Gartner has issued a stunning warning to its customers: AI browsers are a major cybersecurity…

Adobe Premiere Mobile Adds a YouTube Shorts Creation Space

Adobe Premiere Mobile Adds a YouTube Shorts Creation Space

Adobe partnered with YouTube to bring a new YouTube Shorts space to the Premiere mobile…

WinUIpad: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Sideways
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WinUIpad: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Sideways ⭐

An AI-generated Petzold-style Notepad, a new Windows App SDK tutorial, a title bar experiment, and…

Smart Home-ish in 2026
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Smart Home-ish in 2026 ⭐

We have two places that will be left unattended for months at a time, so…

Google Updates Chrome with Four Autofill Improvements

Google Updates Chrome with Four Autofill Improvements

Google is adding four new autofill-related improvements to Chrome across the desktop and mobile versions…

Ask Paul: December 5
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Ask Paul: December 5 ⭐

Happy Friday! As we settle into the darkness and coldness of winter, it’s a good…

Android Studio Gets a Big Gemini 3 Update

Android Studio Gets a Big Gemini 3 Update

The Otter 2 Feature Drop is the final stable release of Android Studio in 2025,…

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Two More Senior Executives Are Leaving Apple

Apple is about to close the books on its most successful quarter ever, and yet…

Opera for Android Gets a Major AI Update

Opera for Android Gets a Major AI Update

Opera announced that it has added powerful Ask AI features from its desktop web browsers…

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