Paul Thurrott
Paul Brian Thurrott is a technology podcaster, published author, reviewer of Surface Pen Loops, and blogger on his website thurrott.com in collaboration with Petri.com. He regularly writes how-to articles and posts his personal comments, previews, and reviews for betas’ and completed Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft Surface, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Phone, Microsoft Office, and other products.
Podcasts
Thurrott is a co-host of the Windows Weekly podcast on the Twit.tv network, hosted by Leo Laporte and also co-hosted with journalist Mary Jo Foley. Windows Weekly focuses on weekly expert commentary about news of Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and other Microsoft and computing related topics. Windows Weekly attracts approximately 80,000 downloads for each episode.In 2011, he also became a regular contributor to the GFQ Network, and co-host of What The Tech, a podcast along with co-host and GFQ Network founder, Andrew Zarian.
First Ring Daily is a daily podcast co-hosted by Thurrott with Brad Sams that began September 2016. The initial episode was filmed at the Microsoft Ignite conference.
Books
Thurrott has written a range of books on programming languages and Microsoft's operating systems.| Title | Co-Author | Publication Date | ISBN |
| Windows NT 5.0 Networking | |||
| Delphi 3 Superbible | March 1997 | ||
| Unlocking Active Server Pages | June 1997 | ||
| Implementing Microsoft Visual InterDev | September 1997 | ||
| VBScript for the World Wide Web | October 1997 | ||
| Cascading Style Sheets: A Primer | November 1997 | ||
| SELECT: Projects for Visual Basic 6.0 | March 1999 | ||
| Visual InterDev 6 Unleashed | April 1999 | ||
| Great Digital Media with Windows XP | September 2001 | ||
| Windows XP Home Networking | November 2004 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Power Toolkit | Walter Bruce, David Chernicoff | August 2002 | |
| Windows Vista Secrets | Brian Livingston | 2007 | |
| Windows Vista Secrets: SP1 Edition | October 2008 | ||
| Windows 7 Secrets | Rafael Rivera | September 2009 | |
| Windows Phone 7 Secrets | November 2010 | ||
| Windows 8 Secrets | Rafael Rivera | October 2012 | |
| Windows 10 Field Guide | Rafael Rivera, Martin McClean | 2019 |