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

DOJ Keeps Recommendation to Take Chrome Away from Google

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 38 U.S. states filed their final remedy recommendations…

Dynabook Portégé Z40L-N

Dynabook Announces New Copilot+ PC Laptop for Business

The Dynabook Portégé Z40L-N is a premium, ultra-weight, business-class Copilot+ PC laptop with a magnesium…

Google is Bringing Widgets to the Android Lock Screen

Google is Bringing Widgets to the Android Lock Screen

As part of a broader push for widgets on Android, Google this week said it…

The administration's latest cabinet pick
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Ask Paul: March 7 (Premium)

Happy Friday! This has been a surprisingly busy week, with lots going on, and I…

## .NETpad 2025: With a Little Help From My (AI) Friends
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.NETpad 2025: With a Little Help From My (AI) Friends (Premium)

I always intended to use AI to improve the quality of the code I'm writing…

Duck.ai

DuckDuckGo Launches Private AI Chat Service

Duck.ai is a new service from DuckDuckGo that provides private, anonymous access to popular AI…

U.S. Department of Justice at night

Google Asks DOJ to Reject Breakup

Google asked the DOJ to back off from its recommendation that the search giant should…

OpenAI board

UK CMA Clears Microsoft Partnership with OpenAI

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today that it has closed its investigation…

Zen browser

Zen Browser is the Firefox Version of Arc

I'm a little late to this party, but there's a new web browser called Zen…

AI Mode

Google Brings an AI Mode to Search

Google announced Wednesday that it is experimenting with a new AI mode in Search that…

Recall security in action
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For the Love of God, Microsoft (Premium)

As if Windows 11 wasn't chaotic and confusing enough, the act of updating the several…

## MWC 2025: Intel Expands Core Ultra Series 2 for Commercial AI PCs

MWC 2025: Intel Expands Core Ultra Series 2 for Commercial AI PCs

At MWC 2025 today, Intel announced an expansion of the Intel Core Ultra Series 2…

Four new features for Android

Google Brings Some Pixel Safety Features to Android

It's not just the Pixel family of products: Google separately announced four new features for…

March 2024 Pixel Drop

Google Delivers March 2025 Pixel Drop

Google has started rolling out a long list of functional updates for its supported Pixel…

Google to promote widgets in the Play Store

Google Pushes Widgets on Android, Again

Poor Google. It was an early innovator in mobile widgets as part of the initial…

Firefox 136 with vertical tabs

Firefox 136 Adds Updated Sidebar and Vertical Tabs

Mozilla today released Firefox 136, the latest version of its flagship web browser. This one…

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