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

Office Sway is Coming to Office 365

Office Sway is Coming to Office 365

Microsoft’s experimental new Office solution, Office Sway, is apparently useful enough to warrant inclusion in…

Microsoft Delivers Office 2016 Public Preview

Microsoft Delivers Office 2016 Public Preview

About two months after releasing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview, Microsoft has…

Microsoft Announces Windows Update for Business

Microsoft Announces Windows Update for Business

At its Ignite keynote address this morning, Microsoft announced a new offering called Windows Update…

Need to Know: Universal Windows Platform

Need to Know: Universal Windows Platform

With Windows 10, Microsoft is touting a theme of “One Windows” in which previously separate…

Need to Know: Microsoft Edge

Need to Know: Microsoft Edge

Microsoft is getting a lot of attention for pushing Internet Explorer towards retirement and replacing…

Hands-On with Surface Hub

Hands-On with Surface Hub

Sometime later this year, Microsoft will sell a new family of Windows 10 devices called…

Office Mobile Apps to Gain Add-In Capabilities in 2015

Office Mobile Apps to Gain Add-In Capabilities in 2015

Stuck between an overly-long Azure presentation and the hype-worthy Windows segment during the Build 2015…

Hands-On with (a Near Final) Microsoft HoloLens

Hands-On with (a Near Final) Microsoft HoloLens

If you’ve been following the news from Build this week, you know that Microsoft’s innovative…

Xbox 360 System Update Adds Support for 2 TB Hard Drives, More

Xbox 360 System Update Adds Support for 2 TB Hard Drives, More

It warms my heart to watch Microsoft stop ignoring Xbox 360, and today’s release of…

Now Available: First Full Release of the Microsoft Band SDK

Now Available: First Full Release of the Microsoft Band SDK

Today, Microsoft announced the availability of the first full release of its Microsoft Band SDK,…

Here Comes Continuum for Phones

Here Comes Continuum for Phones

For all the news that came out of Build this week, I think my favorite…

Microsoft Confirms Staggered Launch for Windows 10

Microsoft Confirms Staggered Launch for Windows 10

At a special event today, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 10 will launch over a period…

Microsoft Ships Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 Build 10074

Microsoft Ships Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 Build 10074

Surprise! Microsoft has delivered yet another Windows 10 pre-release build for PCs. Windows 10 build…

Microsoft Explains the Windows 10 Design Changes

Microsoft Explains the Windows 10 Design Changes

Feeling a little hamburgled? Looking for something a bit more definitive than an ex-Microsoftie explaining…

Build 2015: Android Apps on Windows, Sure. But How About ... iOS Apps?

Build 2015: Android Apps on Windows, Sure. But How About … iOS Apps?

You might want to sit down for this one, folks. In addition to letting developers…

Build 2015: A More Developer-Centric Approach to Android on Windows

Build 2015: A More Developer-Centric Approach to Android on Windows

Sources have been telling me for the past year that Microsoft has been working to…

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