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

Is Digital Wellbeing Slowing Down Pixel Handsets?

A few Reddit posts claiming that Google’s Digital Wellbeing is slowing down the firm’s smartphones…

Google Pixel 3a XL Preview

I’ve ordered a Google Pixel 3a XL to compare it to the much more expensive…

Windows 10 is Active on 825 Million Devices

And as part of a recent reorganization, we also have a better understanding now about…

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Ask Paul: May 10 (Premium) (Updated)

Happy Friday! And welcome to the post-Build hangover edition of Ask Paul.

Google Assistant is Finally Coming to Sonos One

18 months after it promised this functionality, Sonos will finally bring Google Assistant compatibility to…

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Now Available in Preview

Microsoft announced that Xbox Insiders in Preview Beta can join and test Xbox Game Pass…

Windows 10 + PWAs: A Progress Report

In October 2017, I spoke with Microsoft’s Jeff Burtoft and Aaron Gustafson about the company’s…

Facebook Co-Founder Calls for Breakup of Company

Facebook co-founder---and former Mark Zuckerberg college roommate---Chris Hughes has called for a breakup of the…

Android 9 Pie Adoption Up 250 Percent Over Previous Version

Google this week said that adoption of the latest Android version has skyrocketed compared to…

Google’s Music Streaming Services Surpass 15 Million Users

A new Bloomberg reports says that Google Play Music and YouTube Music combined just surpassed…

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A Look Back: PowerToys for Windows XP (Premium)

With this week’s news that Microsoft is rebooting PowerToys, I thought it would be fun…

Microsoft Confirms UWP is Not the Future of Windows Apps

As I predicted, Microsoft is effectively killing UWP by ensuring that all its capabilities are…

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18894 Arrives

No, there are no tabs, but the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build brings File…

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The End of Apps (Premium)

Microsoft’s Fluid Framework promises a people-centric computing model that could mark the death of apps…

Microsoft Reboots the PowerToys for Windows 10

Microsoft is rebooting the PowerToys, a set of system utilities that debuted alongside Windows 95,…

Google Pushes Chrome OS to Developers

Chrome OS and the Chromebooks on which it runs are now sophisticated enough for web…

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