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.

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Microsoft AI exports

Microsoft Calls on U.S. to Ease AI Export Restrictions

Microsoft has asked the White House to ease the U.S. government's restrictions on AI chip…

Nvidia headquarters

Nvidia Revenues Up 78 Percent to $39.33 Billion

Nvidia reported that it earned a net income of $22 billion on revenues of $39.33…

Putting AI to work
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From the Editor’s Desk: Putting AI to Work (Premium)

Whether this is hypocritical or ironic, or both, I don't know, but I have struggled…

Framework Announces 12-Inch Laptop, 13-Inch AMD Laptop, Desktop PC

Tuesday was a big day for Framework: It announced a new 12-inch laptop, a 13-inch…

.NET Preview 1

Microsoft Releases .NET 10 Preview 1

Microsoft has finally released the first preview of .NET 10 ahead of its final release…

Opera Developer now integrates with Slack, Discord, and Bluesky

Opera Adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to Sidebar

Six weeks after it tested this functionality in Opera Developer, Opera has added Bluesky, Discord,…

Fortnite character on an iPhone

Apple Exec Admits 27 Percent App Store Fee was Likely a Violation of Court Order

Long-time Apple executive Phil Schiller admitted in court that the 27 percent fee Apple imposed…

Gemini Code Assist for Individuals in Visual Studio Code

Gemini Code Assist is Now Free for Individuals

Google announced today that it is making its Gemini Code Assist AI coding assistant free…

Anthropic 3.7 Claude

Anthropic’s First Reasoning AI Model is Now Available

Anthropic today announced the immediate availability of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first reasoning AI model,…

Core Office apps are now free on Windows

You Can Now Use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Free on Windows (Updated)

Microsoft has quietly made free, ad-supported versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint available for free…

Online Accounts 2025: Single Sign-In (SSO)
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Online Accounts 2025: Single Sign-In (SSO) (Premium)

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce my reliance on Big Tech services that…

It's alive! The Unix V2 "beta"

Researcher Recovers Oldest Machine-Readable Version of Unix Yet

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix…

Inside an Azure datacenter

Microsoft Reportedly Canceled Some Planned Datacenter Capacity

Microsoft still plans to spend at least $80 billion on AI infrastructure in its current…

Tabs UI is coming together
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.NETpad 2025: Building Out the Tabs (Premium)

Supporting tabs adds complexity to .NETpad, but I've successfully merged my backend code for that…

Chrome OS 133

Google Rolls Out Chrome OS 133

Google Chrome OS 133 adds several minor new features related to accessibility, screencasts, Bluetooth microphones,…

Apple Intelligence Writing Tools on Vision Pro

Apple Confirms April Rollout for New Apple Intelligence Features, Language Support

Apple said late Friday that it would roll out new AI-based Apple Intelligence features across…

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