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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Ask Paul: May 1
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Ask Paul: May 1 ⭐️

Happy Friday! It's Labor Day here in Mexico, but there's no rest for the wicked,…

Microsoft is Rolling Out Xbox Mode in Windows 11

Microsoft is Rolling Out Xbox Mode in Windows 11

After weeks of testing in the Xbox Insider Program, the new Xbox Mode for Windows…

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Apple Revenues Up 17 Percent to $111.2 Billion

Apple reported that it earned a net income of $29.6 billion on revenues of $111.2…

The Xbox April Update is Here

The Xbox April Update is Here

The Xbox April Update includes improvements for Xbox consoles, PCs, Xbox Ally gaming handhelds, and…

Zed, the Rust-Made Coding Editor, Hits 1.0

Zed, the Rust-Made Coding Editor, Hits 1.0

Zed is a completely new software coding text editor written entirely in the memory-safe Rust…

Microsoft Earnings Analysis: Pay No Attention to the Capex Behind the AI
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Microsoft Earnings Analysis: Pay No Attention to the Capex Behind the AI ⭐️

Windows, Edge, Bing, and Xbox, oh my! But also AI and capex, the only things…

MWC 2025: Qualcomm X85 5G Modem Hits 12.5 Gbps

Qualcomm Revenues Decline 3 Percent to $10.6 Billion

Qualcomm reported that it earned a net income of $7.4 billion on revenues of $10.6…

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Amazon Revenues Up 17 Percent to $181.5 Billion

Amazon reported that it earned a net income of $30.3 billion on revenues of $181.5…

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Google/Alphabet Revenues Up 22 Percent to $109.9 Billion

Google's parent company earned a net income of $62.6 billion on revenues of $109.9 billion…

Microsoft Just Lost the Windows 10 FUD War (Premium)

Microsoft Revenues Jump 18 Percent to $82.9 Billion in FY26Q3

Microsoft announced that it earned a net income of $31.8 billion on revenues of $82.9…

Canonical is All-In on AI in Ubuntu Linux

Canonical is All-In on AI in Ubuntu Linux

Canonical announced this week how it will integrate AI functionality into its Ubuntu Desktop Linux…

Anthropic Claude Now Connects With Affinity, Adobe, and Other Creator Solutions

Anthropic Claude Now Connects With Affinity, Adobe, and Other Creator Solutions

Anthropic is partnering with Affinity, Adobe and other creator tools makers to expand Claude's creative…

Microsoft Open Sources Some of the Earliest MS-DOS Code

Microsoft Open Sources Some of the Earliest MS-DOS Code

Microsoft today released the source code for he 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, which is among the…

Amazon, OpenAI Expanding AWS Partnership

Amazon, OpenAI Expand Their AWS Partnership

The ink isn't even dry on [the revised Microsoft/OpenAI partnership and the latter is already…

From the Editor's Desk: Conspiracy Theory
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From the Editor’s Desk: Conspiracy Theory ⭐️

Humans are hard-wired to see conspiracy. I try to supress these feelings sometimes, but it's…

PowerToys 0.99 Arrives With Two New Utilities, Many Improvements

PowerToys 0.99 Arrives With Two New Utilities, Many Improvements

PowerToys just got even better with two useful new utilities and as massive set of…

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