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

Surface drivers are written in Rust

Microsoft Pushes Windows Driver Developers to Embrace Rust

Microsoft has embraced the memory-safe Rust language across its platforms, and now it's pushing Windows…

Satya Nadella Addresses Layoffs in Email to Employees

Microsoft employees are understandably on edge after several chaotic rounds of layoffs, with many fearing…

Apple Beta

Apple Issues Public Betas for its ’26 OS Releases

Two days after a 4th developer beta, Apple has issued public betas for iOS, iPadOS,…

Refreshed Link to Windows app for Android

Microsoft Previews Improved Link to Windows App for Android

Microsoft's Link to Windows app is how you connect your Android smartphone to your Windows…

The Full Pixel 10 Family Lineup Has Leaked

Google has now given us a peek at all the phones in the coming new…

Google Earnings Report Shows Resilience Against ChatGPT

Google Earnings Report Shows Resilience Against ChatGPT

Google delivered stronger than expected quarterly earnings yesterday, upending the narrative that AI rivals were…

Visual Studio 2022

Report: Visual Studio 18 to Be a Major Upgrade

Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship IDE for software developers of all kinds, but it hasn't…

Kindle Colorsoft family

Amazon Announces Two Cheaper Kindle Colorsoft Models

Amazon now offers two less expensive Kindle Colorsoft models, one for kids, with pricing starting…

Google Photos

Google Brings Veo Image-to-Video Capability to Google Photos

Google Photos now offers the Veo-based image-to-video capability that Google previously added to Gemini, and…

Blurry Google logo

Google Revenues Up 14 Percent to $96.4 Billion

Alphabet/Google reported that it earned a net income of $28.2 billion on revenues of $96.4…

Microsoft, Consumers, and AI: A Comedy
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From the Editor’s Desk: Microsoft, Consumers, and AI, a Comedy (Premium)

Microsoft is failing with AI and it's failed with consumers. So now it's going to…

Sonos CEO Thomas Conrad

Sonos Names Tom Conrad as CEO

6 months ago, Sonos parted ways with Patrick Spence and appointed board member Tom Conrad…

Proton Lumo

Proton Announces Lumo, a Private AI Chatbot

Proton today announced Lumo, a confidential AI chatbot built around privacy, security, and transparency. It's…

Brave Will Block Recall in Windows 11 by Default

Brave Will Block Recall in Windows 11 by Default

Brave revealed today that a coming update to its flagship browser will block Recall in…

Three iPhone 6 family phones

Apple Issues 4th Betas for ’26 OS Releases

Just ahead of the expected public betas, Apple has refreshed its '26 OS developer betas…

It’s Week D, So Microsoft (Re)Announces New Features Coming to Windows 11

Microsoft is highlighting several new features that are coming to Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs,…

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