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

EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech

Lawmakers in the EU have had it with Apple and other Big Tech firms unfairly…

Report: EU to Investigate Google Acquisition of Fitbit

In a major setback to Google and its desire to jumpstart its wearables business, the…

Big Tech CEOs Appear Before Congressional Antitrust Committee

Yesterday, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai all…

Microsoft Flight Simulator is Coming to Steam, Will Support VR

Microsoft revealed today that its new Flight Simulator will be come to Steam on August…

Samsung Beats Earnings Estimates as Demand Improves

Samsung reported solid financial results in the quarter ending June 30 despite the negative impact…

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Qualcomm Announces Financial Results, Huawei Agreement

Qualcomm announced that it earned a net income of $845 million on revenues of $4.9…

Collections Comes to Edge Mobile

The Collections feature from Microsoft Edge on desktop is now available in the Android and…

Google One is Adding Free Phone Backup, More

The Google One app has provided phone backup capabilities to subscribers since last year, but…

Google Talks Progress on Flutter for Web

Google today provided an update on its progress bringing Flutter app development to the web,…

Spotify Now Has 299 Million Users

As part of its quarterly earnings report, Spotify announced this week that it now has…

AMD Revenues Surge 26 Percent in Q2

Processor maker AMD announced last night that it earned net income of $157 million on…

Report: Google Wants More Control of Samsung’s Handsets

A blockbuster report in Bloomberg claims that Google is negotiating with Samsung to obtain more…

Microsoft Edge 86 Hits the Dev Channel

Microsoft has released the first build of Edge 86 to the Dev channel, and it…

Microsoft 365 Generated Over $20 Billion in Revenues Last Year

According to a new report from Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft 365 generated over $20 billion…

Microsoft Family Safety App is Now Available

After several weeks in preview, Microsoft’s new Family Safety app for Android and iOS is…

Microsoft Announces Games with Gold for August

July has disappeared in a flash, and with August upon us, Microsoft has revealed the…

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