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.

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Microsoft to Move to a Single Edge codebase

One of the more interesting tidbits that came out of Ignite this week is that…

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Ask Paul: March 5 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and welcome to March: Spring is not quite in the air yet, but…

Visual Studio Code Now Supports M1 Macs

The February 2021 release of Visual Studio Code brings several new features to Microsoft’s modern…

Google is Speeding Up the Chrome Release Schedule

Google announced today that it will shorten the Chrome release schedule from every six weeks…

Into Focus at Microsoft Ignite

Mary Jo and I joined Microsoft hosts Dona Sarkar and Seth Juarez---and Microsoft CVP of…

Microsoft Edge Gets Vertical Tabs, More

Among the new features coming to Microsoft Edge on desktop this month is vertical tabs,…

Microsoft is Adding Support for Foldables to Flutter

Last year, Flutter lead Tim Sneath publicly reached out to Microsoft in an effort to…

UK Launches Antitrust Investigation of Apple App Store

It’s getting harder to keep track of all the regulatory bodies around the globe that…

Dark Mode, More Coming to OneDrive

Microsoft has published its latest roadmap for OneDrive, and it has a number of new…

Apple Now Lets Users Move Photos from iCloud

Apple has finally figured out how to let its users get out of the one-way,…

Google Unleashes Flutter 2 And a New Era of Apps

In its initial releases, Flutter allowed developers to create apps that run on both Android…

Here Are the First Titles Coming to Xbox Game Pass in March

Today, Microsoft revealed the several new titles that will be coming to Xbox Game Pass…

Brave Acquires a Privacy-Focus Search Engine

Brave announced today that it has acquired the open search engine Tailcat and will integrate…

Google Says It Wants a “Privacy-First” Web

Google today acknowledged that the proliferation of advertising-based tracking on the web has eroded the…

Panay Touts “the Next Generation of Windows”

In a very brief appearance during an Ignite 2021 session today, Windows chief Panos Panay…

PlayStation Store to Stop Selling Movies, TV Shows

Citing a shift towards streaming video services, Sony said today that it will no longer…

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