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

Epic and Google Agree to Settle Antitrust Case

Epic and Google Agree to Settle Antitrust Case

Epic Games and Google have agreed to settle their five-year-old antitrust case, pending approval from…

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AMD Revenues Jump 36 Percent to $9.2 Billion

Chipmaker AMD announced that it earned a net income of $1.2 billion on revenues of…

Apple to Bring Live Translation on AirPods to EU Next Month

Apple to Bring Live Translation on AirPods to EU Next Month

Apple announced today that Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU next month,…

Microsoft to Launch .NET 10 at .NET Conf 2025 Next Week

Microsoft to Launch .NET 10 at .NET Conf 2025 Next Week

Microsoft will launch .NET 10 at its annual .NET virtual conference, .NET Conf, next week…

Apple to Ship First A-Series MacBook in Early 2026

Apple to Ship First A-Series MacBook in Early 2026

Mark Gurman reports that Apple will sell an entry-level MacBook with an iPhone processor in…

Review: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

Review: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

“Once a company is too big to fail, it becomes too big to jail, and…

Nintendo Revenues Up 90 Percent YOY as Switch 2 Sales Surpass 10 Million Units

Nintendo Revenues Up 90 Percent YOY as Switch 2 Sales Surpass 10 Million Units

Nintendo reports that it sold over 4.5 million Switch 2 consoles in the third quarter…

Spotify Posts a Loss in Q3 But Subscribers and Active Users Surged

Spotify Posts a Loss in Q3 But Subscribers and Active Users Surged

Spotify reported that it lost €72 million on revenues of €4.27 billion in the quarter…

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Paul’s Pixel 10 Diaries: Desktop Mode ⭐

The Pixel 10 series phones support a hidden Desktop Mode that points to a future…

OpenAI in $38 Billion Deal with Amazon AWS

OpenAI in $38 Billion Deal with Amazon AWS

OpenAI and Amazon AWS announced a new multi-year strategic partnership that’s valued at $38 billion.

Zorin OS 18 Next Steps: Typora, The GIMP, Games, More
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Zorin OS 18 Next Steps: Typora, The GIMP, Games, More ⭐

Linux still has rough edges, but Zorin OS 18 continues to impress in that it…

WinUIpad: (Just Like) Starting Over
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WinUIpad: (Just Like) Starting Over ⭐

With the transition to the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3, I'm renaming .NETpad to…

OpenAI Lost $12 Billion in the Previous Quarter

OpenAI Lost $12 Billion in the Previous Quarter

According to a Microsoft 10-Q filing, OpenAI isn’t just unprofitable. It’s incredibly unprofitable and just…

Dev and Beta Channels Get a New Preview Quality Update, Bigger Changes to Come

Dev and Beta Channels Get a New Preview Quality Update, Bigger Changes to Come

Windows 11 Insider Preview Quality Update KB5067115 will upgrade a Dev or Beta PC to…

Ask Paul: October 31
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Ask Paul: October 31 ⭐

Happy Friday, Happy Halloween, y feliz Día de Muertos! It’s that time of the year…

Proton Brings Its Lumo AI to Businesses

Proton Brings Its Lumo AI to Businesses

Proton announced that its Lumo AI is now available for businesses with the same privacy…

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