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

An Xbox ... NUC?
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What If the Next Xbox Console Was a NUC? (Premium)

What if this new generation of third-party gaming handhelds points the way to the future…

.NETpad 2025: Recent Documents
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.NETpad 2025: Recent Documents (Premium)

Putting tabs aside has been delightfully freeing, and I spent much of the weekend making…

The Future of Xbox is ... The PC?
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The Future of Xbox is … The PC? (Premium)

The ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds are more PC than console. They're also yet another gut-check…

Bill Atkinson

Tech Nostalgia: Bill Atkinson

I woke this morning to the sad news that GUI pioneer Bill Atkinson has passed…

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.NETpad 2025: Reset (Premium)

I have good news and I have bad news. There's a new version of .NETpad…

Microsoft Edge picture-in-picture

Microsoft Edge Gets a Nice Picture-in-Picture Update

Like many alternative web browsers, Microsoft Edge for desktop offers a picture-in-picture (PIP) feature for…

Northern Lights adjacent
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Ask Paul: June 6 (Premium)

Happy Friday! I got off light last week, but that's not the case this time.…

Apple Loses Again in Epic Games Antitrust Case

Apple Loses Again in Epic Games Antitrust Case

A U.S. appeals court denied Apple's emergency motion to pause a legal order in Epic…

Your guess is as good as mine

Microsoft Announces Yet Another AI Reorg

Microsoft told employees today that LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will now oversee development of Office as…

Online Accounts 2025: Little Tech Remote Access
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Online Accounts 2025: Little Tech Remote Access (Premium)

The way I interact with the storage that holds my content has changed a lot…

New Outlook for Windows

Microsoft Announces June 2025 Update for the New Outlook

The new Outlook for Windows isn't what anyone would call a fan favorite, but Microsoft…

In Defense of Notepad
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In Defense of Notepad (Premium)

Never have so many been so outraged by so little. But don't listen to the…

Adobe Brings Photoshop to Android in Beta

Adobe Brings Photoshop to Android in Beta

Over three months after it launched Photoshop on the iPhone, Adobe today delivered an initial…

Microsoft's new AI reasoning agents are now generally available to those with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

Research and Analyst Agents Are Now Available in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft's new AI reasoning agents are now generally available to those with a Microsoft 365…

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Elementary OS 8 Gets Updated Dock, Window Manager, More

Elementary has been updating its user-friendly Linux distribution more frequently this year, and this week…

Bing Video Creator is Now Available and Free, But Only on Phones

Bing Video Creator is Now Available and Free, But Only on Phones

Microsoft today announced Bing Video Creator, an OpenAI Sora-powered tool for transforming text prompts into…

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