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

Microsoft is Closing Its Retail Stores for Good

Microsoft announced today that it will permanently close all of its retail stores and reassign…

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Master 365: Getting Started with Power Apps (Premium)

Based on my first experiences using Power Apps, I can already see that it’s possible…

Google Photos Gets a Nice Redesign

Google has announced a major redesign of Google Photos that will roll out to the…

Here are the Games with Gold for July

For July, Microsoft is offering Xbox Live Gold members four more free games, including the…

HP Envy x360 13 (2020) First Impressions

Powered by the AMD Ryzen 4000 series processor, the HP Envy x360 13 should deliver…

AMD Delivers a Major Mobile Efficiency Milestone

In 2014, AMD said that it would improve the energy efficiency of its mobile processors…

Former Intel Engineer Says Apple Plotted Divorce Because of Skylake

A former Intel engineer is claiming that Apple began plotting its divorce from Intel when…

Google Extends an Olive Branch to News Organizations

Under fire for scraping stories from news organizations and republishing them in its own service,…

Google Gets More Aggressive with Auto-Deleting User Data

One year ago, Google enabled a feature that allows its customers to auto-delete location history…

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Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers. Please. (Premium)

With the announcement this week of macOS Big Sur, Apple has once again embarrassed Microsoft…

There are More Games Coming to Xbox Game Pass in June

Yes, June is almost over, but Microsoft has announced several new games coming to Xbox…

Opera Now Integrates with Twitter

The new version of the Opera desktop web browser now offers built-in Twitter support via…

Hands-On with the New iOS 14 User Experience

OK, I wasn’t going to install iOS 14 this quickly. But then I rewatched the…

Hands-On: Apple MacBook Air (2020)

I’ve owned several MacBook Air laptops over the years, and I certainly understand the appeal…

Microsoft Defender ATP for Android is Available in Preview

The Defender ATP Preview for Android can protect against phishing and unsafe network connections from…

Edge Enterprise Sync Comes to Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Microsoft announced today that it has made Edge enterprise sync available to Microsoft 365 Business…

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