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 Teams Turns Two

On the second anniversary of its release, Microsoft has announced some new milestones for Teams,…

Atari Delays VCS Again, to Late 2019

Originally expected by the end of 2017, the retro-inspired Atari VCS has been delayed yet…

Call of Duty: Mobile is Coming Soon

Call of Duty: Mobile was originally heading only to China, but now the game is…

Report Spills Some Details About Google’s Game Streaming Service

Google will announce a multi-platform game streaming service today that appears to be similar to…

No, Netflix is Not Joining New Apple Video Service

No surprise here, but Netflix confirmed last night that it will not participate in Apple’s…

Google Set to Launch Pixel 3a, 3a XL

Google’s new mid-range smartphones will allegedly not be called Pixel 3 Lite and Lite XL…

PlayStation Vue Adds Multi-View on Apple TV

Sony’s cord-cutting solution now lets you view four different channels at the same time on…

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Microsoft Should Have Spun Off Xbox. Good Thing It Didn’t (Premium)

Many industry pundits called on Microsoft to spin off Xbox over the years. But then…

Apple Announces New iPad Air and iPad Mini

Apple this morning announced a new 10.5-inch iPad Air, which oddly doesn’t replace the 9.7-inch…

Microsoft Opens the Halo Insider Program

Interested in testing Halo: The Master Chief Collection on the PC? Well, here’s your chance.

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Taking a Black Ops Pass: Call of Duty is Losing Me (Premium)

Activision is doing everything it can to turn away long-time Call of Duty fans these…

Hands-On with Android Q Beta 1

When Google announced the first beta release of Android Q this past week, I resolved…

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Spotify Responds to Apple

Spotify branded Apple as a monopolist in its response to a wordy but insubstantial Apple…

Moving Away from Pocket Casts

For now, I’ve chosen a solution called Castbox that appears to offer everything that I…

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Apple is Guilty of Infringing on Three Qualcomm Patents

Qualcomm has won an important legal victory as part of its multi-tiered legal battle against…

Microsoft Delivers Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14905 for PC and Mobile

Microsoft Eyes the Finish Line with New Windows 10 19H1 Build

This one fixes a few more issues and introduces a Windows Defender Application Guard browser…

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