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

Mozilla Evolves Smart Window in Firefox

Mozilla Partners with Mistral on Firefox Smart Window

Mozilla and Mistral announced today that they have partnered to bring AI capabilities to Firefox…

Dreambeans is a Fun and Vaguely Creepy Fever Dream and I Can't Get Enough
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Dreambeans is a Fun and Vaguely Creepy Fever Dream and I Can’t Get Enough ⭐

Dreambeans is a unique Google Labs experiment that ably demonstrates the pros and cons of…

Adobe Announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2027

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2027 and Premiere Elements 2027 are now available in standalone and bundled…

BOOX has established a nice niche for itself with its e-ink tablets and devices, and it has some solid updates this week.

BOOX Announces Three New E-Ink Android Devices

BOOX has established a nice niche for itself with its e-ink tablets and devices, and…

HP Announces an AMD-Powered Portable Workstation

HP Announces an AMD-Powered Portable Workstation

The HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16 is a 16-inch portable workstation built around the AMD…

Google Delivers the September 2026 Pixel Drop

Google Delivers the September 2026 Pixel Drop

The September 2026 Pixel Drop brings new features to supported Pixel phones and Pixel Watches…

Phoning It In
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Phoning It In ⭐

Each year, I go through an embarrassing amount of navel gazing in considering which phones…

Google Announces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Google Announces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today, its most advanced live…

Gemini Notebook to be Updated with New Personalization and Learning Tools

Gemini Notebook to be Updated with New Personalization and Learning Tools

Google's Gemini Notebook--formerly NotebookLM--has emerged as one of the more impressive new productivity apps of…

Raspberry Pi Modernizes Its Desktop OS

Raspberry Pi Modernizes Its Desktop OS

The Raspberry Pi Desktop hasn't changed a lot from a user experience perspective since it…

Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion for AI Equality

Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion for AI Equality

Three weeks after its founder issued a strident warning about the dangers of AI, the…

Why Markdown?
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Why Markdown? ⭐

Writing effectively requires focus, and a computer is not an ideal writing environment. But it…

Where are the Miracles?
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Where are the Miracles? ⭐

AI is so powerful that it could be used to develop new bioweapons. But it's…

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Tech Nostalgia: Incompatible ⭐

With the personal computing revolution underway in the early 1980s, platform makers faced an unexpected…

Anytype Announces Next-Generation Anytwo Platform

Anytype Announces Next-Generation Anytwo Platform

Anytpe is one of the more interesting top-tier Notion alternatives, a so-called "everything app" with…

Ask Paul: September 11
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Ask Paul: September 11 ⭐

Happy Friday! We're still recovering from travel, so let's kick off the weekend a bit…

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