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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Ask Paul: April 2 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and Happy Easter if you’re celebrating. Let’s get the weekend off to an…

The OnePlus 9 Series is Now Available

Announced on March 23, the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro are now available for…

MLB The Show 21 is Coming to Xbox Game Pass on Day One

Long-time PlayStation exclusive “MLB The Show” is coming to Xbox consoles and, it turns out,…

Kensington VeriMark Desktop Fingerprint Key First Impressions

Kensington recently announced its VeriMark Desktop Fingerprint Key, which lets you add Windows Hello fingerprint…

Opera Says Its Browser Runs 2X Faster on M1

Opera today announced the availability of the first M1-native version of its flagship browser, and…

Amazon Reveals Its Plans for Opening Up Its Offices

Amazon isn’t buying into the work-from-home future and it expects all of its employees to…

Google to Begin Reopening Its Corporate Campus in April

Google announced today that it will welcome some employees back to its offices in April…

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Microsoft to Build 120,000 HoloLens Headsets for the U.S. Army

Microsoft announced today that it has received a contract worth up to $21.88 billion over…

Too Little Too Late, Microsoft Voices Support for Cortana

Microsoft Kills Cortana on Mobile

Following through on its July 2020 announcement, Microsoft has ended support for the Cortana app…

Backward Compatible Games Come to Xbox Cloud Gaming

Xbox Cloud Gaming---formerly called Project xCloud---now provides access to 16 OG Xbox and Xbox 360…

Huawei Grew in 2020 Despite U.S. Sanctions

Huawei reported overall growth in 2020, but its consumer business was hit particularly hard by…

Immersive Reader Comes to PowerPoint for the Web, OneDrive, More

Microsoft announced today that its Immersive Reader is now rolling out to PowerPoint for the…

Microsoft Announces Games with Gold for April

Today, Microsoft revealed the games that it will give away to those with Xbox Live…

Kensington Announces a Windows Hello Fingerprint Reader

Kensington today announced its VeriMark Desktop Fingerprint Key, which provides Windows Hello fingerprint recognition to…

Microsoft Expands Its Global Skills Initiative

Last year, Microsoft launched its global initiative aimed at digital skills learning. Since then, it…

Adobe Launches a Design Mobile Bundle for iPad

Adobe today announced its Design Mobile Bundle, a collection of its best iPad apps for…

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