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

Microsoft Translator for Android Can Translate Images Now Too

Microsoft Translator for Android Can Translate Images Now Too

Microsoft this week announced a major update to its Translator app for Android. Key among…

Microsoft Reminds Remaining OneDrive Users About Storage Changes

Microsoft Reminds Remaining OneDrive Users About Storage Changes

The other day I noted that Microsoft had begun emailing customers who were impacted by…

Skype UWP Preview App for PCs Adds Group Features

Skype UWP Preview App for PCs Adds Group Features

Microsoft today released its second pre-release version of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app version…

Less than a week after the previous build, Microsoft has delivered Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview build 14327, which features the first release of Microsoft's new Messaging Everywhere Preview.

Microsoft Delivers Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14327

Less than a week after the previous build, Microsoft has delivered Windows 10 Mobile Insider…

Microsoft Ends the 10 Year Run of the Xbox 360

Microsoft Ends the 10 Year Run of the Xbox 360

Over 10 years after it was first released, the Xbox 360 video game console is…

Lumia 650 is Coming to Cricket for Just $130

Lumia 650 is Coming to Cricket for Just $130

Cricket Wireless announced today that it will begin selling Microsoft's latest low-end smart phone, the…

Microsoft Issues Major Surface Book, Pro 3, and Pro 4 Firmware Updates

Microsoft Issues Major Surface Book, Pro 3, and Pro 4 Firmware Updates

Microsoft issued massive sets of firmware updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 last…

Thurrott Daily: April 19

Thurrott Daily: April 19

Tech tidbits from around the web: Intel Apollo Lake schedule hints at 2017 for Surface…

Microsoft Offers Free Year of Office 365 to Some OneDrive Users

Microsoft Offers Free Year of Office 365 to Some OneDrive Users

Microsoft has begun emailing OneDrive users who qualify for a one-time-only offer of a free…

Keyboard-Based PCs Offer a Wistful Reminder of the Commodore 64

Keyboard-Based PCs Offer a Wistful Reminder of the Commodore 64

A Chinese hardware maker named PIPO has announced a set of Windows-based PCs that cram…

Apple Updates New MacBook, But Doesn't Address Biggest Issues

Apple Updates New MacBook, But Doesn’t Address Biggest Issues

When Apple first released the new MacBook in 2015, it was all compromises, with underpowered…

Microsoft Edge to Support WebM, VP9 and Opus

Microsoft Edge to Support WebM, VP9 and Opus

It seems like Microsoft announces minor improvements to Edge almost every day, and that the…

Thurrott Daily: April 18

Thurrott Daily: April 18

Tech tidbits from around the web: Sonos will not make a Windows 10 UWP app,…

It's Official: Google Adds Podcasts to Play Music

It’s Official: Google Adds Podcasts to Play Music

This was one of those long-running open secrets, but now it's finally happening: Google has…

Windows Phone is Irrelevant Today, But It Still Has a Future

Windows Phone is Irrelevant Today, But It Still Has a Future

I spend an inordinate amount of time fretting about Windows phone. But I'm increasingly convinced…

Amazon Prime Goes Monthly

Amazon Prime Goes Monthly

Amazon Prime is an amazing bundling deal that combines the physical with digital subscription perks.…

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