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.…

I genuinely like Surface PCs, but I can’t recommend them because of reliability issues. And the dulling sameness of each upgrade would make even Apple blush. And so, not for the first time---and not, I suspect, for the last---I find myself wondering what the point of it all is. I write these words in the…

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 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…

Microsoft will host its next .NET Conf virtual conference on August 9, and this one will focus exclusively on .NET MAUI.

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…

I’ve somehow managed to travel to Mexico City three times this year, for a total of five weeks. But this time I left something behind: thanks to us finally closing on that apartment purchase, we now have a base there and I can start thinking about having a More Mobile computing setup in a second…

Happy Friday (or Feliz Viernes, I guess) from Mexico City. Our flight home was canceled, so we stayed here a few days extra. But that doesn’t mean we can’t tackle some questions this week… AMA navarac writes: Not a question, but a thanks to you and Nick for the AMA today (Thursday). Thank you. I…

Happy Friday! Not surprisingly, given the events of this past week, we have a lot of questions. Actually, I do too. Panos, Windows 11, and you will asks: I know you have talked about the Microsoft Hybrid Work event from this week, but overall I felt like this was just an odd marketing job for…

Happy Friday! Here’s a great set of thought-provoking and April Fools-free questions from readers to get the weekend off to an early start. Hardcore software mattbg asks: Have you been following Steven Sinofsky's "Hardcore Software" series? What do you think about it? It seems like an important and comprehensive look at how Microsoft worked in…

Happy Friday! Here’s another great set of reader questions---with some consistent concerns, go figure---to kick off the weekend. Reminder: GET-IT virtual conference is next Thursday Nobody asked me about this, but I did want to remind everyone that Russell Smith and I will be co-hosting Petri’s free GET-IT Microsoft 365 Collaboration and Productivity Accelerator for…

Happy Friday! Here’s another great round of reader questions to get the weekend started a bit early. Site updates goodbar asks: How is thurrott.com dark mode coming along? Short answer: it’s not coming along at all right now, sorry. More nuanced answer: we only have one web tech guy (Nick) and he’s been working to…

With my trip to Mexico winding down, here’s a new round of great reader questions to kick off our last weekend here a bit early. Android apps on Windows 11 ggolcher asks: Now that Microsoft is making the preview of Android App support on Windows 11 more broadly available, I was able to finally try…

Hola from Mexico City, Mexico. My wife and I are heading to Puebla tomorrow, so Ask Paul is a day earlier than usual. Let’s dive in. Pascal erichk asks: Paul, you were a big Pascal guy from what I can tell. I've recently started messing with it again. I'll cut to the chase: Were you…

Happy Friday and, if you’re celebrating, Merry Christmas (Eve)! Here’s a holiday-inspired round of reader questions. Why? crunchyfrog asks: I'm frankly surprised you'd be taking questions this close to the Christmas holiday, but cheers to your dedication. Thanks, I originally meant to do this a day early, on Thursday, but I forgot. Plus, my son…