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

Microsoft Explains Errant Insider Build

Microsoft has explained what caused it to accidentally release an internal preview build of Windows…

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Programming Windows: Hello, OLE 2.0 (Premium)

In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows with inter-process communications capabilities based on OLE.

Microsoft to Sell a Fortnite Xbox Wireless Controller

Microsoft announced this week that it will soon offer a standalone version of its Fortnite…

Android TV Comes to Soundbars

JBL this week announced the first TV soundbar to offer an Android TV experience, complete…

DOJ to Investigate Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

The U.S Department of Justice said Tuesday that it was opening an antitrust review of…

Mixer Commits to Community, Kills Mixer Create

Mixer announced changes to the service focused on reducing harmful content and toxic behavior to…

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Programming Windows: OLE (Premium)

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) brought compound document capabilities to Windows, starting in version 3.0.

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Programming Windows: Hello, DDE (Premium)

Using Dynamic Data Exchange was next to impossible unless you were using Visual Basic with…

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Programming Windows: BASIC Inventors Take on Gates, Microsoft (Premium)

In another sidebar, the inventors of BASIC had some choice words for Bill Gates, Microsoft,…

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Programming Windows: IBM Defends the Original PC (Premium)

In this sidebar to the Programming Windows series, a key architect of the first IBM…

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Programming Windows: Clipboard and DDE (Premium)

Early GUIs like Windows were easy to use, but they also provided advanced system-level features…

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…

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