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

How to Rip Blu-Ray Videos

Ripping Blu-Ray videos is not as straightforward as doing so with DVD videos. For starters,…

Throwback Thursday: Windows Mobile 6.5

Just two years after the original iPhone was released, Windows Mobile was on the ropes…

OneDrive Tip: Upload Files with Your Web Browser

While many people will use the OneDrive sync client to push PC-based files into the…

Ask Paul: Buy Surface Pro 3 Now or Wait for Surface Pro 4?

I get this question a lot: Midstream in Surface Pro 3’s life cycle and on…

Word for Windows 10 Preview

Like many of you, I was quite happily surprised by this week’s unexpected preview releases…

Microsoft Releases Update Rollup for Windows 10 Technical Preview 2

Every month, it seems, Microsoft changes the way it updates the current pre-release version of…

Preview Versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows 10 are Now Available

Just weeks after revealing that it would deliver universal app versions of its Office apps…

OneDrive Tip: Get Extra Storage

With OneDrive available everywhere—on PCs and Macs, iPhones, iPads, Android devices of all kinds, Windows…

The Tablet Market Shrunk in Q4 2014

We all know that Apple sold fewer iPads in 2014 than they did in 2013.…

Ask Paul: Charging PCs and Gadgets in Europe

If you travel internationally, you’ll need the right adapters so you can use your PCs…

Clean PC: Remove Crapware from a New PC

It’s one of the biggest downers in personal technology: you buy a new PC, take…

Ask Paul: Configure File History to Use a Single Drive

Here’s an interesting question about File History, an update to the “previous versions” functionality that…

How to Rip DVD Videos

While the world has clearly moved on to HD video, many of us still have…

Tools of the Trade: Windows USB/DVD Download Tool

Microsoft’s free Windows USB/DVD Download Tool will convert a Windows Setup ISO file into a…

Raspberry Pi 2 Costs $35, Will Run Windows 10 for Free

When Microsoft vaguely revealed last year that Windows 10 would run on Internet of Things…

For the Love of Cyan

Among the many advantages of Microsoft’s Lumia smart phones is that all of the most…

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