Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with over 25 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 Updates Skype for Mac

Microsoft this week released Skype 7.5 for Mac, adding support for several new languages, fixing…

Google Play Music Now Lets You Store 50,000 Songs in the Cloud for Free

If you prefer to access your own music collection rather than use a streaming service,…

Windows Phone Grew Unit Sales in 2014, Lost Market Share

IDC this week is reporting that Android and iPhone combined to control 96.3 percent of…

Stardock Releases Start 10 Beta for Windows 10

After coming to the rescue of millions of beleaguered Windows 8 users with highly-recommended utilities…

Microsoft is Removing Support for Facebook and Google Chat from Outlook.com

The web version of Outlook.com will be a lot less chatty soon: Microsoft revealed today…

Life Hacking: Better Living Through Technology?

It probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that sitting in front of a computer all day is…

KAZAM Announces New Windows Phones and Tablets

A relative newcomer to the European mobile market, KAZAM got a jump on next week’s…

Students: Check Your Eligibility for Free Microsoft Office

With millions of students from around the world now eligible to receive Microsoft Office for…

Windows Phone Usage Stats for February 2015

Every month, I highlight the state of the Windows Phone hardware ecosystem, using data from…

Mixing and Swaying with the Latest Office Offerings

While old-school productivity offerings like Word, Excel and PowerPoint are still very much core to…

Tools of the Trade: Ninite

Whether you’re using my Clean PC principles or not, after you reinstall Windows, you need…

Clean PC: Use System Backup

If you’ve been following along with my Clean PC article series, you know that you…

Nokia Lumia 930 + Denim: Recording Memories in Puerto Rico

During a recent and all-too-brief vacation in Puerto Rico, I was able to put the…

Ask Paul: Which Call of Duty Games are the Best?

Finally, someone has asked me the most important question in personal technology. Here’s something I’m…

Raspberry Pi 2: First Steps

Earlier this month, the Raspberry Pi Foundation released a major new version of its tiny…

First Look: WinBook TW700 Tablet

Look out, HP: there’s a new budget Windows tablet and town. And this one—the WinBook…

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