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

Microsoft Security

Microsoft is Working with the Security Industry to Prevent Another CrowdStrike Outage

Microsoft published a technical deep dive into what went wrong with the CrowdStrike outage and…

HP EliteBook Ultra

HP EliteBook Ultra Review

Don't be fooled by the name: The HP EliteBook Ultra is the Snapdragon X-powered successor…

Wirecutter pulls its Sonos recommendations

Wirecutter Pulls Its Recommendation of Sonos

The new Sonos app is so terrible that the influential Wirecutter reviews site has pulled…

Daisy's favorite place
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Ask Paul: July 26 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and if you were impacted by the CrowdStrike outage this past week, I…

Resiliency
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Resiliency (Premium)

In the wake of the CrowdStrike outage, Microsoft has adopted the industry partnership stance I…

New Sonos app

Sonos CEO Apologies for New App, Promises Biweekly Updates

Months after his company dropped a dumpster fire of a new app on its customers,…

OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

OpenAI announced today that it is testing a "temporary prototype" of new AI search features…

Linux Mint 22

Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” is Now Available

Linux Mint has released the next major long-term support version of its popular Linux distribution…

Windows 11 version 24H2

Microsoft Delivers New Windows 11 24H2 Build to the Release Preview Channel

For the first time in over a month, Microsoft has issued a new build of…

Windows 11 Start

Microsoft Belatedly Delivers Windows 11 22H2/23H2 Week D Preview Update

It's two days late, but Microsoft today delivered a June Week D preview update for…

Doom (2016)
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A Few Thoughts on Portable PC Gaming (Premium)

In the early 1990s, the PC became inevitable as a platform thanks to several unrelated…

Bing generative search preview

Microsoft Brings Generative Search to Bing in Early Preview

Last night, Microsoft revealed that it has begun testing a new generative search experience in…

Faceplant in the mud
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How the Mighty Have Faceplanted (Premium)

In the 1990s, Microsoft destroyed many once-great companies. But these days, they're just committing suicide.…

Google

Alphabet/Google Revenues Jumped 14 Percent in Q2

Google's parent company Alphabet reported it earned a net income of $23.6 billion on revenues…

Netlix sucks
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Netflix Sucks and So Does Spotify and All the Rest (Premium)

In an ideal world, we would pay companies for the products and services we use…

Gaming PCs based on 13th Gen Intel Core desktop processors

Intel Admits to Core Processor Problems, Will Issue Patch

Microprocessor giant Intel took the rare step this week of admitting to a flaw in…

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