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

Ask Paul: February 21
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Ask Paul: February 21 (Premium)

Happy Friday! AI angst is understandably on the rise, and we look backwards and forwards…

Digital Research team in 1980
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Tech Nostalgia: A Computer Needs an OS Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle (Premium)

The first personal and home computers booted into a ROM, or read-only memory, that usually…

Learning American Sign Language with Signs-AI

Nvidia Announces AI to Help Teach ASL

Nvidia is partnering with the American Society for Deaf Children to build an AI platform…

Amazon Chime meeting

Amazon Kills Chime, Adopts Zoom and Microsoft 365

Amazon is no longer accepting new customers for Chime ahead of ending support for the…

Lenovo quarterly earnings

Lenovo Revenues Jump 20 Percent to $18.8 Billion

The world's biggest maker of PCs reported double-digit growth in net income and revenues in…

Eero Pro 7

Eero Expands its Wi-Fi 7 Product Family

Eero today announced the Eero 7 and Eero 7 Pro mesh wireless networking routers, both…

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PT, Phone Home (Premium)

I may be a little too obsessed when it comes to efficiency. But I configure…

Microsoft Majorana 1 quantum processor

Microsoft Announces Quantum Breakthrough, New Processor

Microsoft today announced Majorana 1, a Quantum processing unit (QPU) that it says is powered…

You Can Now (Sort Of) Buy Books in Google Play Books for iOS

You Can Now (Sort Of) Buy Books in Google Play Books for iOS

Apple doesn't allow third-party e-book readers like Google Play Books to offer users direct purchases…

WebUI 2.0 performance gain in Edge

Microsoft Brings More Performance Improvements to Edge

More interfaces in Microsoft Edge have transitioned to WebUI 2.0, resulting in dramatic and noticeable…

AI as a time saver
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The Real Advantage of AI? It Saves You Time (Premium)

There are disasters and there are miracles, and either can be the inspiration for change.…

ExpressVPN announced today that it has transitioned its Lightway VPN protocol to the more secure Rust programming language

ExpressVPN Rewrote its VPN Protocol with Rust

ExpressVPN announced today that it has transitioned its Lightway VPN protocol to the more secure…

iA Writer 2.0 for Windows is Now Available

iA Writer 2.0 for Windows is Now Available

Two months after a public beta, iA today announced that iA Writer 2.0 is now…

.NETpad 2025: Finalizing the Tabs Layout
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.NETpad 2025: Finalizing the Tabs Layout (Premium)

After weeks of experimentation, I've finally arrived at what I feel is an acceptable compromise…

Location privacy in Windows Setup

Microsoft Deprecates Location History in Windows 11

Microsoft quietly revealed that it has deprecated Location history in Windows 11 and will remove…

A single penguin on a giant iceberg
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From the Editor’s Desk: The Problem is You (Premium)

An ongoing controversy about Rust in the Linux kernel points to a far more mainstream…

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