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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Microsoft Tests Gears 5 Multiplayer

Microsoft has begun a public beta test of some of the multiplayer game modes that…

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FY19 (Premium)

Microsoft issued its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for Fiscal Year 2019 last night. Let’s take…

YouTube Music Picks Up an Audio/Video Toggle

Those hardy souls who are already subscribing to YouTube Music can now instantly switch between…

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18941 (20H1)

Windows Insiders in the Fast ring received a new pre-release build of Windows 10 version…

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Programming Windows: A Quick Progress Report (Premium)

6 weeks ago, I set out to tell the history of Windows from a different…

Microsoft is Now Pushing Windows 10 1903 on 1803 Users

Microsoft announced today that those still running Windows 10 version 1803 will now be offered…

Microsoft Explains How New Edge is Enterprise-Ready

Last week, ahead of its Inspire partner show, Microsoft said that current pre-release versions of…

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Programming Windows: MFC (Premium)

MFC allowed C++ developers to quickly generate skeleton code for even the most complex of…

Microsoft Announces New Xbox Game Pass Titles

Microsoft has revealed the Xbox Game Pass titles it is adding to the service during…

Grammarly Picks Up More AI Smarts

Grammarly has updated its popular writing assistant with new AI-powered writing suggestions for correctness, clarity,…

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Report: EU Launches Amazon Antitrust Investigation

Citing multiple sources, Bloomberg is reporting that the EU will launch a “full-blown” antitrust investigation…

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Programming Windows: NT Everywhere (Premium)

After it finally shipped Windows NT, Microsoft spent the next five years steadily improving the…

Hands-On with the Lenovo IdeaPad S940

Lenovo’s IdeaPad S940 is a premium small, thin, and light laptop with high-end components and…

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Programming Windows: The Windows NT Death March (Premium)

Between 1991 and 1993, Microsoft dogfooded its own code and fought feature creep and bugs…

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Programming Windows: NT (Premium)

Before there was Windows NT, there was NT, a 32-bit portable operating system that would…

Hands-On with the Acer Swift 7

Aimed at road warriors, the Acer Swift 7 features one of the most compact designs…

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