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

Creeping Complexity Comes for the Pixel 11 Pro XL Camera Experience
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Creeping Complexity Comes for the Pixel 11 Pro XL Camera Experience ⭐

The iPhone and Pixel camera systems leapfrog each other every year, but this year, Google…

Adobe Brings Premiere Mobile to Android

Adobe Brings Premiere Mobile to Android

Almost one year after its release on the iPhone and iPad, Adobe is releasing Premiere…

XAML.io Lets You Build .NET Apps in a Web Browser

XAML.io Lets You Build .NET Apps in a Web Browser

XAML.io is an impressive web-based software development IDE that lets you build C#/XAML .NET apps…

Dave Plummer Has Made the Task Manager of Your Dreams

Dave Plummer Has Made the Task Manager of Your Dreams

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has published an impressive and modern Task Manager replacement called…

Googlebook is a Story About Inertia, Simplicity, and Reinvention
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Googlebook is a Battle of Simplicity and Sophistication vs. Inertia ⭐

I've always loved the idea of Chrome OS. But I'm curious if Googlebook will move…

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Googlebook Questions, Answered ⭐

The first Googlebook laptops are on the way and we now have answers to most…

Legal Filing: OpenAI and Microsoft Knew They Were Stealing

Legal Filing: OpenAI and Microsoft Knew They Were Stealing

Executives at both companies knew they were stealing and breaking the law, but they pushed…

Report: OpenAI to Lose $278 Billion in Next Five Years

Report: OpenAI to Lose $278 Billion in Next Five Years

The Financial Times reports that OpenAI expects to lose at least $278 billion through the…

Microsoft Word for Windows, present day
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Word Processing Is Not Writing ⭐

If you're a writer, word processing apps left you behind many years ago. It's time…

Ask Paul: September 18
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Ask Paul: September 18 ⭐

Happy Friday! We're on the cusp of Autumn here, so let's kick off the last…

Google Labs CC Evolves Into an AI Agent for Families

Google Labs CC Evolves Into an AI Agent for Families

Google announced today that it's evolving CC, a Google Labs experiment, to become an agent…

Affinity Ships a Major Update With Over 60 New Features

Affinity Ships a Major Update With Over 60 New Features

Last year, Affinity combined three separate apps into a single, free super app for creators…

Microsoft Brings Windows 11 Auto SR to Intel Core Ultra Series 3-Based PCs

Microsoft Brings Windows 11 Auto SR to Intel Core Ultra Series 3-Based PCs

Microsoft is expanding the availability of Auto SR (Super Resolution) to Copilot+ PCs based on…

Anthropic Merges Cowork Into Chat, Adds Docs and Slides

Anthropic Merges Cowork Into Chat, Adds Docs and Slides

Anthropic announced a major update to its Claude AI assistant that integrates Claude Cowork into…

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U.S. v. Google (Ads) Ruling is Unsealed

Two weeks after Judge Leonie M. Brinkema revealed that she would not order Google to…

Microsoft Brings App Building Capabilities to Copilot Cowork and Studio

Microsoft Brings App Building Capabilities to Copilot Cowork and Studio

Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio now support the agentic creation of apps using natural…

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