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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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Find/Replace (Premium)

For this installment of our UWP project, we’ll implement Find, Find Next, Find Previous, Replace,…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): New, Save, and Save As (Premium)

With File Open and the Save prompt out of the way, we can move forward…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): File Open and Custom Dialogs (Premium)

In this fourth installment, we’ll get started on file operations and custom dialogs, both of…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): More Settings (Premium)

In this installment of the UWP Notepad project, we’ll implement the non-font user settings and…

Microsoft Announces New Teams Features, Including Smart Displays

Microsoft is announcing a huge list of new features that are coming to Teams in…

Android 11 Beta 2 Arrives

Google today announced the availability of Android 11 Beta 2 and the platform stability milestone…

Google Partners with Canonical to Bring Flutter to Linux

Google announced today that it is partnering with Ubuntu maker Canonical to bring Linux desktop…

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865 Plus

Qualcomm is delivering an overclocked version of its Snapdragon 865 mobile SoC for devices that…

Intel Announces Thunderbolt 4

Intel announced today that it will succeed the Thunderbolt 3 universal connector with Thunderbolt 4,…

The Windows Cycle with Paul Thurrott – RunAsRadio #705

Richard Campbell chats with Paul Thurrott about the current state of Windows Desktop, and the…

Samsung to Launch New Flagships on August 5

Samsung revealed last night that it will host its next “Unpacked” event virtually on August…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): User Settings (Premium)

In this second installment, we’ll use C# to implement user settings related to fonts, word…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): First Steps (Premium)

After far too many struggles, I think I’ve finally gotten the UWP version of .NETpad…

Apple Releases iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7 Developer Beta 2

Apple today released the second developer betas for iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11, tvOS…

Peggy Johnson is Leaving Microsoft

Microsoft executive vice president Peggy Johnson is leaving the software giant and will assume the…

Halo 3 Arrives on PC Next Week

Microsoft announced today that Halo 3 will ship as part of the Master Chief Collection…

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