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

Woody

I never met Woody Leonhard in person, but he could not have had a bigger…

Google Gemma 3

Google Launches Gemma 3 Family of SLMs

Google today announced its third-generation Gemma 3 family of AI small language models (SLMs) along…

Pocket Casts for the Web

Pocket Casts is Now Free on Windows, Mac, and Web

Pocket Casts announced that its flagship podcasts player is now free on Windows, Mac, and…

Google Optimizes ChromeOS for Microsoft 365

Google Optimizes ChromeOS for Microsoft 365

Google highlighted some of the work it's done to optimize the Microsoft 365 experience on…

Anthropic 3.7 Claude

Google Quietly Acquired 14 Percent of Anthropic

Court documents obtained by The New York Times show that Google quietly acquired a 14…

Baby Steps Forward in the Web Browser User Experience
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Baby Steps Forward in the Web Browser User Experience (Premium)

The innovative Arc browser was apparently too much of a leap for many. But are…

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.NETpad 2025: Something Old, Something New (Premium)

As I build out all the functionality required by multiple documents and tabs, I keep…

Windows App

Microsoft is Killing the Remote Desktop App for Windows

Microsoft announced today that it is replacing the Remote Desktop app for Windows with the…

Recommended in File Explorer

Dev and Beta Channel Insiders Get a New 24H2 Build

Those with PCs enrolled in the Dev and Beta channels can install a new cumulative…

Apple Vision Pro apps

Gurman: Apple to Overhaul iPhone, iPad, and Mac UIs

Mark Gurman reported today that Apple will unveil a "dramatic software overhaul" for its iPhone,…

Press to Talk

Copilot in Windows 11 is Getting Press to Talk in Insider Preview

Last week, Microsoft unveiled the new Copilot app in Windows 11, and this week, it's…

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PT, Phone Home, This Time with Data (Premium)

A few weeks back, I wrote about some experimentation I was doing with my smartphone…

I found my love in Mexico City
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From the Editor’s Desk: Community (Premium)

Our kids spent the past week with us here in Mexico City, providing me with…

Apple HomePad concept image

Gurman: Apple Delays HomePad Too

The ever-reliable Mark Gurman says that Apple's problems delivering an AI-powered Siri assistant will impact…

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.NETpad 2025: Return to Sender (Premium)

I'm at a weird point with the next version of .NETpad. The basic coding for…

Microsoft AI

Microsoft’s In-House AI Models Now Rival OpenAI and Anthropic

Separate reports claim that Microsoft's efforts to create in-house AI models that rival those from…

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