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

In Defense of Notepad
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In Defense of Notepad (Premium)

Never have so many been so outraged by so little. But don't listen to the…

Adobe Brings Photoshop to Android in Beta

Adobe Brings Photoshop to Android in Beta

Over three months after it launched Photoshop on the iPhone, Adobe today delivered an initial…

Microsoft's new AI reasoning agents are now generally available to those with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

Research and Analyst Agents Are Now Available in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft's new AI reasoning agents are now generally available to those with a Microsoft 365…

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Elementary OS 8 Gets Updated Dock, Window Manager, More

Elementary has been updating its user-friendly Linux distribution more frequently this year, and this week…

Bing Video Creator is Now Available and Free, But Only on Phones

Bing Video Creator is Now Available and Free, But Only on Phones

Microsoft today announced Bing Video Creator, an OpenAI Sora-powered tool for transforming text prompts into…

EEA users will be able to uninstall the Store app in Windows 11

Microsoft Makes More DMA-Based Changes to Windows 10/11 in the EU

Microsoft announced Monday that it is making several changes to Windows 10/11 and their in-box…

Microsoft Delivers New 24H2 Builds to Dev and Beta Channels

Microsoft Delivers New 24H2 Builds to Dev and Beta Channels

Microsoft today issued new pre-release Windows 11 version 24H2 builds for those with PCs enrolled…

Synology Drive client in Windows
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Online Accounts 2025: A Little Tech Approach to File Access (Premium)

The NAS has been up and running for over two weeks. I've copied over most…

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Microsoft Reaches Tentative Agreement with Game Union, a First

After two years of negotiations, Microsoft and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) have reached…

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PWAs Now Support Windows 11 App Actions

Microsoft Edge version 137 is shaping up to be one of the most momentous releases…

Rainbow over Keuka Lake
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Ask Paul: May 30 (Premium)

Happy Friday! After a hectic couple of weeks, I'm looking forward to catching up and…

Little Tech: It's Time to Move to a Third-Party Password Manager
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Little Tech: It’s Time to Move to a Third-Party Password Manager (Premium)

Microsoft Authenticator is losing its password management capabilities, but there's no need to be outraged…

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Dell Revenues Up 5 Percent to $23.4 Billion

Dell Technologies reported a net income of $965 million on revenues of $23.4 billion in…

Microsoft Edge Game Assist is Now Available

Microsoft Edge Game Assist is Now Available

With the release today of Microsoft Edge version 137, the new Game Assist is now…

Finger Lakes, New York 2025
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From the Editor’s Desk: Crash (Premium)

I assume this happens to everyone. You run into a wall at some point, are…

New York Times Licenses Its Content to Amazon

New York Times Licenses Its Content to Amazon

The New York Times announced that it has agreed to license its content to Amazon…

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