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 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…

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 855 Plus

Qualcomm today announced a new, overclocked version of its Snapdragon 855 mobile chipset that is…

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Programming Windows: Hello, MFC (Premium)

Before diving into the Microsoft Foundation Class library, I thought it might be a good…

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Programming Windows: Object-Oriented Programming

OOPs! By the 1990s, Windows application developers were consumed by the move to Object-Oriented Programming,…

Microsoft Finally Fixes Windows 10 Version 1903 Blocking Issue

Microsoft has quietly fixed three major issues with Windows 10 version 1903, one of which…

Hulu Quietly Adds 4K Streaming

One of the few digs against Hulu is that its original content, movies, and TV…

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