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

Google Releases Chrome 76

Google has released Chrome 76, the latest version of its web browser, adding a new…

Microsoft Announces New Xbox Games with Gold for August

Microsoft has announced the new Xbox titles that will be made available for free to…

Microsoft Announces New Titles for Xbox Game Pass

August is upon us, so Microsoft has announced which titles are coming to Xbox Game…

Windows 10 Version 1903 Hits Double-Digit Usage Share

Usage of the latest version of Windows 10 has hit 11.4 percent this month, according…

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Programming Windows: COM (Premium)

Inspired by deficiencies in DDE and OLE 1.0, the Component Object Model (COM) was a…

DOOM, DOOM II, and DOOM 3 are Back

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the first DOOM, Bethesda has re-released the first…

New Windows 10 Preview Build Provides Peek at the Future of Cortana

Friday night, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 18945 to Fast ring testers with…

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Ask Paul: July 26 (Premium)

We’re in the third and final day of our annual European Heat Wave experience. So…

Google Results Top Expectations

As part of its quarterly earnings announcement, Alphabet announced explosive growth at Google, which easily…

Buy a Note 10, Get Big Trade-In Values on Select Phones

Samsung is offering tremendous trade-in values on select Galaxy, iPhone, and Pixel handsets if you…

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Told You So? Nope (Premium)

Google says that sales of its smartphones doubled YOY in the most recent quarter thanks…

Google Photos Hits 1 Billion Users

Google Photos has quickly rocketed to the one billion user milestone, about four years after…

Samsung Reschedules Galaxy Fold Launch to September

Samsung announced that it will now make its first foldable smartphone available to the public…

Too Little Too Late, Microsoft Voices Support for Cortana

Microsoft is Kicking Cortana Off Xbox One, Too

Microsoft revealed this week that it will remove Cortana from Xbox One and will evolve…

Microsoft is Tinkering with the Xbox Dashboard. Again

Xbox Insiders are now testing what I believe is Microsoft’s 117th attempt at delivering a…

Microsoft Renames Office Online

Microsoft announced that it will drop the word “Online” from its Office Online branding. Apparently,…

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