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 Open Sources Zork I, II, and III Source Code

Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II, and III Source Code

Microsoft announced today that it has open sourced the code for the first three Zork…

Seeking a Little Expertise
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From the Editor’s Desk: Seeking a Little Expertise ⭐

Experts are everywhere, but finding experts you can trust who can also communicate difficult topics…

Google Brings Apple AirDrop to Android

Google Brings Apple AirDrop to Android

Google is bridging the iPhone/Android divide with Quick Share, an AirDrop compatible file transfer capability…

OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Coding Model Arrives With Better Support for Windows

OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Coding Model Arrives With Better Support for Windows

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is OpenAI’s latest frontier agentic coding model, and it’s faster and more intelligent and…

Google Releases Nano Banana Pro Across its Stack

Google Releases Nano Banana Pro Across its Stack

Google announced the release of Nano Banana Pro, its most powerful image generation and editing…

Vivaldi 7.7 Arrives on Mobile

Vivaldi 7.7 Arrives on Mobile

One week after its release on the desktop, Vivaldi 7.7 is here for Android, iPhone,…

Lenovo Revenues Up 15 Percent to $20.5 Billion

Lenovo Revenues Up 15 Percent to $20.5 Billion

Lenovo reported that it earned a net income of $340 million on record revenues of…

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Nvidia Revenues Up 62 Percent to $57 Billion in Q3

Nvidia reported that it earned a net income of $32 billion on revenues of $57…

Snapdragon Control Panel Improves the Gaming Experience on Windows 11 on Arm

Snapdragon Control Panel Improves the Gaming Experience on Windows 11 on Arm

The Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games for the Snapdragon X/Arm platform and provides the latest…

Lenovo Legion Go 2 Review

The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is like a big, heavy, and muscular Nintendo Switch 2…

From the Editor's Desk: Noise, Distractions, and Something Much Worse
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From the Editor’s Desk: Noise, Distractions, and Something Much Worse ⭐

The Windows community has hit a new low in the past week or so, with…

Windows Insider Program Releases Copilot Actions, New Release Preview Builds

Windows Insider Program Releases Copilot Actions, New Release Preview Builds

With Microsoft Ignite 2025 now underway in San Francisco, the Windows Insider Program is lighting…

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Meta Did Not Create an Illegal Monopoly with Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions

A U.S. judge ruled today that Meta did not illegally create or maintain a monopoly…

Google Releases Gemini 3 in Preview

Google Releases Gemini 3 in Preview

In a broadside to Microsoft on the opening day of Ignite 2025, Google announced the…

Ignite 2025: MCP Comes to Windows Developers in Preview

At its biggest annual convention this morning, Microsoft announced how it will transform Windows for…

New Dev and Beta Builds Enable New Agentic Features

New Dev and Beta Build Enables New Agentic Features

Microsoft today issued new Windows 11 version 25H2 preview builds to the Dev and Beta…

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