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

Brave Completely Redesigned Browser Data Sync

Additionally, the firm revealed that Brave now has over 16.7 million monthly active users and…

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Even Microsoft is Still Trying to Figure Out Surface Duo (Premium)

What is Microsoft’s real motivation for creating Surface Duo? And what does the future hold…

Intel Touts Tiger Lake Power, Efficiency

Intel today announced its Tiger Lake architecture, which should leapfrog AMD and be marketed as…

Google Reminds Us that Wear OS Still Exists

With its Fitbit acquisition held up by EU antitrust regulators, Google this week announced plans…

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Apple Prepping All-in Subscription Bundle for October

Apple’s long-expected bundling of all of its consumer subscription services is reportedly called Apple One…

Windows 10 Dev Channel Build Introduces a New Post-Update Experience

A new Windows 10 Insider Preview build provides our first peek at a coming change…

Google Makes It Easier to Write Android Apps on Chrome OS

Thanks to native emulator support, it’s possible for the first time to completely develop Android…

Chromebook Sales Growth Outpaced Laptops by 3X in U.S.

Google revealed that Chromebook sales in the U.S. grew by 127 percent in the second…

Vivaldi 3.2 for Android Offers Improve UX, Anti-Tracker, and Ad Blocking

Vivaldi 3.2 for Android provides a more consistent UX along with improvements to its anti-tracker…

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Surface Duo … or Surface DOA? (Premium)

At an expensive $1400, Microsoft’s Surface Duo is hard to justify. But let’s examine the…

Surface Duo to Launch September 10 at $1399

$1399? Yikes. It looks like Surface Duo is going to set enthusiasts back a lot…

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Living with a Laptop: Docking (Premium)

With the HP Envy 15 up and running in a quick-and-dirty fashion in my home…

Google Prevails in Song Lyrics Scraping Case

Google has won a court case in which it had been caught “red-handed” stealing song…

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Antitrust Ruling Against Qualcomm is Thrown Out on Appeal

A 2019 antitrust ruling against mobile chipmaking giant Qualcomm has been thrown out by a…

Mozilla’s Downsizing Continues

Mozilla announced today that it is laying off 250 employees, the second time this year…

New Dell Latitude Chromebook Targets the Enterprise

Dell today has announced the new 14-inch Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise, which is available in…

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