Good news! We've lowered the price of Thurrott Premium from $64 per year to $55 per year.

This week, we are proud to finally launch our Thurrott Now micro-blog for Premium members, plus improved commenting and a few other new site features.

We're fine-tuning things and responding to feedback, and this week's update adds a monthly subscription option, a Premium Content page, and more.

We're bearing down on the end of September, and have a big trip planned next week to Atlanta for Microsoft Ignite. So I wanted to provide another update about the work we're doing to improve Thurrott.com, for both Premium and non-Premium members.

Here's a quick update on where we're at in our work on Thurrott Premium. Also, I'd like to confirm that the daily Xbox Elite Wireless Controller giveaway---which is open to everyone---will continue until Premium is fully deployed sometime later this month.

Today is the first day that we are giving away an Xbox Elite controller every day until we launch Thurrott premium. It's free to enter and we are announcing the first winner today.

We're getting ready to start phasing in some of the Thurrott Premium features we've promised, so this is a good time to update you on where we are. And to thank everyone who has already signed up for Thurrott Premium.