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: Windows 11 Not to Blame for Recent SSD Issues

Microsoft: Windows 11 Not to Blame for Recent SSD Issues

Last week, some Windows 11 users reported some serious issues with the SSDs in their…

Behind Thurrott.com: Membership Changes!

Behind Thurrott.com: Membership Changes!

A few weeks ago, we teased some big changes coming to the memberships we offer…

Ask Paul: August 29
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Ask Paul: August 29 (Premium)

Happy Friday! A very busy month of travel for me begins on Monday, so let's…

Microsoft is Removing the Mobile Plans App from Windows 11

Microsoft is Removing the Mobile Plans App from Windows 11

Microsoft announced today that it will retire the increasingly superfluous Mobile Plans app in Windows…

Dell Revenues Up 19 Percent to $29.8 Billion, a Record

Dell Revenues Up 19 Percent to $29.8 Billion, a Record

Dell reported a net income of $1.2 billion on record revenues of $29.8 billion in…

Microsoft AI Releases Its First AI Models with Some Hints for the Future

Microsoft AI Releases Its First AI Models with Some Hints for the Future

A year and a half ago, Microsoft created a new Microsoft AI organization to create…

Microsoft Releases Windows Backup for Organizations

Microsoft Releases Windows Backup for Organizations

Announced at Ignite 2024, Windows Backup for Organizations is the commercial version of Windows Backup,…

Xbox August Update Brings Cross-Device Play History, My Apps, and More

Xbox August Update Brings Cross-Device Play History, My Apps, and More

Microsoft has released the August Update for Xbox, adding four major new features to the…

Anthropic Will Now Train Claude on Chat Transcripts

Anthropic Will Now Train Claude on Chat Transcripts

In a sharp shift for its privacy policy, Anthropic revealed today that it will begin…

Vivaldi co-founder and CEO Jon von Tetzchner

Vivaldi Comes Out Swinging Against AI Web Browsers

With web browsers poised to change forever thanks to new agentic AI capabilities, Vivaldi is…

Nvidia headquarters

Nvidia Revenues Surge 56 Percent to $46.74 Billion

Nvidia reported a net income of $26.4 billion on revenues of $46.74 billion in the…

HP Revenues Up 3.1 Percent to $13.9 Billion

HP Revenues Up 3.1 Percent to $13.9 Billion

HP reported that it earned a net income of $700 million on revenues of $13.9…

Google Launches Pixel Care+ Device Protection Program

Google Launches Pixel Care+ Device Protection Program

Pixel Care+ is Google's new flagship device protection program for customers who buy Pixel phones…

Google Pixel 10 Series Preview

Google Pixel 10 Series Preview

Well, this was unexpected: I had preordered a Pixel 10 Pro XL at great expense,…

Protesters Briefly Seize Building on Microsoft Campus

Microsoft was forced to lock down a building on its corporate campus in Redmond after…

Anthropic Brings Claude to Chrome in Early Preview

Anthropic Brings Claude to Chrome in Early Preview

Anthropic today released a Claude extension for Google Chrome in an early pilot program limited…

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