Please Welcome Stephen Chapman to Thurrott.com!

Obligatory embarrassing photo of Stephen and Paul at PDC 2009 in Los Angeles

I’m happy to announce that a long-time friend of mine will be contributing to Thurrott.com. Please join me in welcoming Stephen Chapman.

I’ve known Stephen for over 10 years, and we were both part of a group of then young and up-and-coming bloggers covering Microsoft in the late 2000s and early 2010s. (Other familiar names like Raphael Rivera were also part of this group.) He’s a great guy and I think his particular area of expertise—he’s a collector and preservationist of all things Microsoft—will be of particular interest to Thurrott.com readers. As noted, Stephen and I go way back, and he’s excited to share a big part of our shared history with Microsoft and Windows.

I’m just as excited. Stephen has already shared some of his plans for posting to the site, and I think you’re going to be blown away by some of the things he’s collected. These won’t be daily posts, like the news stories previously provided by Mehedi, but rather more sporadic posts—sometimes a lot, sometimes less—aimed at showing a Microsoft from the past with which most are unfamiliar. Including me, in many cases. Again, it’s exciting.

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So without further ado, welcome to Thurrott.com, Stephen.

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  • shawn.healey

    25 August, 2021 - 9:46 am

    <p>Welcome, Stephen! I’m very excited to have an additional point of view here on the site. Any plans to join the First Ring Daily rotation?</p>

    • Stephen Chapman

      25 August, 2021 - 1:02 pm

      <p>We’ll see what the future holds! I’m sure I’ll be hopping on a stream/podcast or two at some point. =)</p>

  • Chris_Kez

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 9:50 am

    <p>Welcome Stephen! I’m looking forward to your contributions.</p>

  • Daninbusiness

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 9:57 am

    <p>Welcome!</p>

  • wright_is

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 10:02 am

    <p>Welcome Stephen, this sounds like a great series…</p><p><br></p><p>I’ll post a teaser, do you remember Project Catalina, from the early 90s? Or is that too geeky? :-D</p><p><br></p><p>That was my one and only briefing directly from a Microsoft engineer.</p>

    • Stephen Chapman

      25 August, 2021 - 1:06 pm

      I don’t recognized that particular codename at the moment!

      • wright_is

        Premium Member
        26 August, 2021 - 12:19 am

        <p>It was the codename for the development of OLE on Windows 3.11 and NT 3.51. We were given a private demonstration on adding OLE code into our applications (I was working for a large consultancy contracted out to an agrochemical company at the time, the son of one of the directors of the chemical company was doing an internship on my project and the father had contacts at MS, so we got a briefing).</p>

  • dondon

    25 August, 2021 - 10:03 am

    <p>Welcome Stephen. Paul, hang your head in shame – photo caption should be ‘Stephen and me’.</p>

  • jeff.bane

    25 August, 2021 - 10:10 am

    <p>All those beautiful women and, uh.</p><p>Welcome!</p>

  • olditpro2000

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 10:30 am

    <p>Welcome aboard!</p>

  • seattlemike

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 10:41 am

    <p>Welcome aboard, Stephen! Very excited to see what you bring.</p>

  • mikegalos

    25 August, 2021 - 10:55 am

    <p>Cool. This should be a fun addition. </p>

  • johnlavey

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 11:23 am

    <p>Welcome, Stephen. If you are a long-time friend of Paul, then you are more than welcome. You’ll fit in quite nicely. I look forward to your contributions to the site. </p>

  • gregsedwards

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 11:50 am

    <p>Welcome to the Thurrott.com family!</p>

  • dmclaurin

    25 August, 2021 - 11:59 am

    <p>Welcome! Already looking forward to your posts :)</p>

  • imback82

    25 August, 2021 - 12:02 pm

    <p>Welcome!</p>

  • Mary Jo Foley

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 12:08 pm

    <p>Yay! Stephen is a great addition here! Welcome! ???????</p><p><br></p>

    • Stephen Chapman

      25 August, 2021 - 1:03 pm

      <p>You’re the best, MJ! &lt;3 #TeamSorachi!</p>

  • igor engelen

    25 August, 2021 - 12:23 pm

    <p>Welcome </p>

  • winner

    25 August, 2021 - 12:26 pm

    <p>Glad to have you here, Steve!</p>

  • faustxd9

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 12:55 pm

    <p>Welcome and already love the first post!</p>

  • tina

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 1:04 pm

    <p>Welcome!</p>

  • Stephen Chapman

    25 August, 2021 - 1:08 pm

    <p>Thanks, everyone! I appreciate the warm welcome. I’m really looking forward to writing about so much of what I’ve collected over the past couple of decades. Hopefully you’ll all enjoy! =)</p>

  • wolters

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 1:31 pm

    <p>Welcome Stephen! Excited you are part of the team…</p>

  • tomschenkenberg

    25 August, 2021 - 1:41 pm

    <p>Welcome to thurrott-c<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hapman.com! ;-)</span></p>

  • madthinus

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 1:54 pm

    <p>Awesome, Welcome!</p>

  • veermaharaj

    25 August, 2021 - 1:54 pm

    <p>Someone familiar with the history of microsoft… it’s about time.</p><p><br></p><p>Also, paul, could you guys do a second tier of premium where it just takes off the ads?</p><p>Like 1 or 2 dollars a month for thurrott.com but with no ads?</p>

  • whistlerpro

    25 August, 2021 - 2:26 pm

    <p>Welcome Stephen! </p>

  • hal9000

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 3:36 pm

    <p>Welcome Stephen!</p><p>So… how many Zunes do you have?</p>

    • Stephen Chapman

      25 August, 2021 - 10:31 pm

      <p>So, thankfully, I didn’t get bit by the Zune bug! I *do* love the device, but I decided quite early on in my collection endeavors to avoid as much hardware as I could (save for select odds ‘n ends). I’m glad I made that decision, because after seeing how positively obsessed many Zune collectors are, I’m positive I could never afford some of the other stuff I’m currently able to if I was a Zune-head on top of everything else, lol. =)</p>

  • navarac

    25 August, 2021 - 3:44 pm

    <p>Welcome. Another "SKU" on Thurrott.com is always welcome.</p>

  • lwetzel

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 4:38 pm

    <p>Welcome!</p>

  • pgiftos

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 5:51 pm

    <p>Welcome! I look forward to your posts. </p>

  • hal9000

    Premium Member
    25 August, 2021 - 11:31 pm

    <p>The Lakers are my favorite basketball team now.</p>

  • justme

    Premium Member
    26 August, 2021 - 5:39 am

    <p>Welcome aboard, sir. Looking forward to your posts. </p><p><br></p><p>Being a PC gamer, I have to ask – does your collection include Games For Windows LIve titles in their original incarnation?</p>

    • Stephen Chapman

      26 August, 2021 - 2:49 pm

      <p>I do have quite a lot of Microsoft Game Studios betas from the earlier days! I plan to archive and cover most of them over time, so I think you’ll really enjoy some of what I have in store for later. =)</p>

  • wosully

    Premium Member
    26 August, 2021 - 6:47 am

    <p>Welcome Stephen, and a friend of Paul’s… I’m looking forward to reading and listening to you!</p>

  • chuckop

    Premium Member
    26 August, 2021 - 7:38 am

    <p>Love me some Microsoft history! I’ve donated items to the Microsoft archives because my pack-rat ways are incompatible with growing older, raising a family, moving, etc. etc.</p><p><br></p><p>How about some trivia contests?</p>

  • bbold

    26 August, 2021 - 9:51 am

    <p>Welcome, Stephen! We’re sure you’ll fit right in. Good luck.</p>

  • ianceicys

    Premium Member
    26 August, 2021 - 11:42 pm

    <p>Super excited to see you join Thurrott Stephen! Welcome</p>

  • sott3

    Premium Member
    27 August, 2021 - 11:18 am

    <p>Welcome! And thank you for spelling your first name properly.</p>

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