In January 2008, my wife Stephanie and I visited Paris and stayed with friends in the Fontenay-sous-Bois suburb. They had recently purchased a Toyota Prius, and I recall stepping outside their apartment to walk down the street to the RER train station so we could head into the city. Then I stopped and regarded their…

Happy Friday after a depressingly long week. Here's another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Thurrott logo merchandise j5 asks: Where's the Thurrott.com merch? It's funny you ask this: I was just discussing this with my wife and we've started investigating the best way to do this. Long…

Happy Friday! Here's an epic set of reader questions to kick off the weekend and the coming start of summer a bit early. Windows 11 version 23H2 testing madthinus asks: I have been thinking about Windows 23H2. When will we test it? Where is it being build? What would be in it. Initially you speculated…

Happy Friday! We're coming up on a long Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S., so let's kick it off early with some great reader questions. christianwilson asks: Energy consumption The push to integrate AI into everything got me thinking about energy consumption. We are living in a time where we are told energy efficiency…

On the eve of Build 2023, it's perhaps useful to examine the ethics of Microsoft's sudden AI explosion and whether our perception matches reality. First, a story for context. Everyone in our community seems to know that Microsoft at some point fired an entire team of internal Windows testers and created the Windows Insider Program…

Happy Friday! Here's another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Feeling Brave DKRowe asks: Have started the switch to Brave and it has gone well so far. Just recently though, searches in Brave for local or map-based queries seem to be producing poorer results. Have you noticed this?…

Happy Friday! Thanks to some great reader questions, here's an epic installment of Ask Paul to get the weekend started a bit early. Too big to fail johnlavey asks: What if INTEL rolls over and plays dead....or actually fails....who will do all the "stuff" they do? To what extent will the US, to name just…

Happy Friday! We're finally settling down after the move and are looking forward to a normal weekend. Which we will kick off early with some great reader questions... From Windows to Linux Eric_Rasmussen asks: With Windows losing focus these days, I've been thinking about how Microsoft could get away from the OS game. They've got…

Happy Friday! I'm a bit later than usual because we had our house closing today, but let's finally kick off the weekend with another great set of reader questions. Which iPad jt5 asks: iPad Air Verus iPad Pro I recently had my iPad Air stolen in San Fransisco - and took as an opportunity to…

Happy Friday the 13th! Here’s another monster installment of Ask Paul with some great questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Microsoft’s datacenter moves wright_is asks: Microsoft has bought DPU builder Fungible and HFC manufacturer Lumenisity in the last couple of weeks. Are they trying to restrict other cloud providers possibilities for expanding…

Hola from Mexico City and Happy Friday! Here’s another great set of reader questions to get the weekend started a little early. Mary Jo OldITPro2000 asks: I was sad to see that this was the last week that Mary Jo will be a regular on Windows Weekly. I've been reading both you and Mary Jo…

Phil Spencer is exactly what Big Tech needs more of, a truthful, plain-spoken everyman who’s not a savant or a megalomaniac, but is just about always right. I was going to write a longer piece about Spencer, who has impressed me at literally every turn during his ascension to the upper executive ranks at Microsoft.…

Happy Friday! And welcome to the longest Ask Paul in recent memory, thanks to a great set of thought-provoking reader questions. Let’s dive in. Google, Stadia, the future rob_segal asks: Related to Google's cancellation of Stadia, what kind of effect do you think this will have on consumer perception of future Google services? Rightly or…

Happy Friday! Here’s another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend before the Windows 11 22H2 launch a bit early. PC longevity ErichK asks: Hey Paul, where do you see PCs in about five years? I ask because a couple years ago I bought a prebuilt Core i7 system from Micro Center,…

Happy Friday from Roma Norte in Mexico City! Here’s a bonanza installment of Ask Paul to kick off the weekend a bit early. Also, I couldn't decide which photo to use, so I added a few extra from this trip below. Except for the last one of the super moon, which was taken with my…

Happy Friday! And welcome to another epic edition of Ask Paul with another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend. Snover OldITPro2000 asks: I was shocked to see the news that Jeffrey Snover is leaving Microsoft. Any insight to where he is headed to? (I wasn't thinking anywhere in particular until I…