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

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No (Local) AI Developer Left Behind? (Premium)

Microsoft has some notable AI wins for developers. But the Windows Copilot Runtime is not…

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Online Accounts 2025: More YouTube Video Downloads (Premium)

For all the complaints one might lob at the company, Google Takeout is an incredible…

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Investors Make Unsolicited $97.4 Billion Offer for OpenAI Parent Company

Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have offered $97.4 billion to buy the non-profit…

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Online Accounts 2025: First Steps (Premium)

20 years ago, I purchased two 1 TB external hard drives so I could replicate…

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Microsoft Has Likely Sold Fewer Than 30 Million Xbox Series X|S Consoles

Take-Two reports that hardware makers have sold 94+ million current-generation video games consoles. Let's do…

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Tech Nostalgia: Microcomputer + Software (Premium)

Most are familiar with the story of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, BASIC, the MITS…

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.NETpad 2025: Thinking About Layout (Premium)

I've made remarkable progress on the important, low-level code to manage multiple tabs and documents…

Paint now has a Copilot button/menu

Microsoft Issues New Windows 11 23H2 Preview Build to the Beta Channel

Those with PCs enrolled in the Windows 11 Insider Program's Beta channel can optionally move…

Third-party autofill in Google Chrome for Android

Google Delays Third-Party Autofill in Chrome on Android

In October, Google announced that it would update Chrome on Android to support third-party autofill…

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Businesses Will Soon Be Able to Configure Whether Windows 11 Setup Installs Cumulative Updates

Microsoft made a major change to Windows Setup in Windows 11 version 24H2 that adds…

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Ask Paul: February 7 (Premium)

Happy Friday! It almost feels like a reckoning on multiple fronts this week, but there's…

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Amazon Revenues Up 9.5 Percent to $188 Billion

E-tailing giant Amazon reported a net income of $20 billion on revenues of $188 billion…

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GitHub Copilot is Getting Agentic

GitHub Copilot may be the single most useful AI companion I've used, but it's about…

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Sonos Revenues Fell 10 Percent to $551 Million

Struggling smart speaker maker Sonos earned a net income of $50 million on revenues of…

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There’s Nothing Wrong with Notion, So I’m Messing with It (Premium)

Notion has emerged as one of the best apps I use every day. Naturally, I've…

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Arm Holdings Withdraws Qualcomm Complaint

During its financial earnings conference call today, Qualcomm said that Arm Holdings had withdrawn its…

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