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

Lenovo Announces New ThinkPads, ThinkStation P4 Workstation

Lenovo Announces New ThinkPads, ThinkStation P4 Workstation

Lenovo today announced new AMD- and Intel-based X13 and L series laptops and a new…

.NET 11 Preview 4 is Now Available

.NET 11 Preview 4 is Now Available

The nothingburger that is .NET 11 continues with the fourth preview of the next release…

Patch Tuesday

Windows 11 Gets Its First Major Feature Updates of 2026

It's Patch Tuesday, so all supported versions of Windows 11 are getting feature and security…

Googlebook Answers Some Questions, Raises Others
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Googlebook Answers Some Questions, Raises Others ⭐️

I've been obsessed with Google's decision to bring Android to laptops since the first rumors,…

Minecraft LIVE is Coming to TwitchCon Rotterdam on May 30

Minecraft LIVE is Coming to TwitchCon Rotterdam on May 30

Mojang announced that it will host a special edition of Minecraft LIVE during TwitchCon Rotterdam…

Samsung Launches One UI 9 Beta

Samsung Launches One UI 9 Beta

With One UI 8.5 now rolling out broadly, Samsung is pushing forward to the next…

Gemini for Google Home Gets Smart Display Improvements and More

Gemini for Google Home Gets Smart Display Improvements and More

Gemini for Home–the version of Gemini being built for Google Home–just keeps getting better.

Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML

Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML in AI Agent Output

Markdown has emerged as the lingua franca of AI, especially with the proliferation of AI…

Lenovo IdeaPad 5a 2-in-1 Review

Lenovo IdeaPad 5a 2-in-1 Review

This is a tough year to buy a laptop, but the Lenovo IdeaPad 5a 2-in-1…

From the Editor's Desk: All's Well That Ends Well
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From the Editor’s Desk: All’s Well That Ends Well ⭐️

Thanks to a series of problems, we're limping into the final days of this stay…

Gurman: Apple Will Tweak Liquid Glass in macOS 27

Gurman: Apple Will Tweak Liquid Glass in macOS 27

There's been a lot of griping about Apple's Liquid Glass design, but especially with Mac…

Switcher 2026: Thinking About Web Browsers
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Switcher 2026: Thinking About Web Browsers ⭐️

While this series has focused on alternatives to Windows, there are smaller steps one might…

Google Releases Snapseed 4.0 for Android, iOS

Google Releases Snapseed 4.0 for Android, iOS

Google released a new Snapseed 4.0 photo editor on Android, one year after shipping version…

OpenAI Brings Codex to Google Chrome

OpenAI Brings Codex to Google Chrome

One year after it launched the Codex in preview, OpenAI's coding agent is available pretty…

Switcher 2026: Some Thoughts on the Alternatives
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Switcher 2026: Some Thoughts on the Alternatives ⭐️

We live in trying times, obviously, but we also live in a time of wonder…

Windows Insider Program

Microsoft Issues New Windows Insider Program Builds

Microsoft today released pre-release builds of Windows 11 to the Beta, Experimental, and Experimental Beta…

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