Paul Brian Thurrott is a technology reporter, published author, podcaster, and the news editor for Windows IT Pro

Windows IT Pro

Windows IT Pro is a trade publication and web site owned by Penton Media serving the information needs of IT professionals in various fields including data processing, software development and programming....

magazine. He regularly writes news, previews, and reviews for beta and completed Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 products, such as Windows 7, Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...

, Microsoft Office 2010, and other products.

Podcasting

He is the host of Windows Weekly with co-hosts Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte

Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....

 and Mary Jo Foley, a podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 focusing on weekly news of Microsoft, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

, and other Microsoft and computing related topics. Windows Weekly attracts approximately 80,000 downloads for each episode.

List of works

• Windows NT 5.0 Networking.
• "Delphi 3 Superbible". March 1997. ISBN 1571690271.
• "Unlocking Active Server Pages". June 1997. ISBN 1562057529.
• "Implementing Microsoft Visual InterDev". September 1997. ISBN 1566047447.
• "VBScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide)". October 1997. ISBN 0201688921.
• "Cascading Style Sheets: A Primer". November 1997. ISBN 1558285792.
• "SELECT: Projects for Visual Basic 6.0". March 1999. ISBN 0201611937.
• "Visual InterDev 6 Unleashed". April 1999. ISBN 067231262X.
• Great Digital Media with Windows XP. September 2001. ISBN 0764536206.
• Windows XP Home Networking. November 2004 (2nd edition). ISBN 0764578162.
• Microsoft Windows XP Power Toolkit (with Walter Bruce and David Chernicoff). August 2002. ISBN 8120322738.
• Windows Vista Secrets (with Brian Livingston). 2007. ISBN 0764577042.
• Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition. October 2008. ISBN 0470242000.
• Windows 7 Secrets (with Rafael Rivera). September 2009. ISBN 0470508418.
• Windows Phone 7 Secrets. November 2010. ISBN 0470886595.

External links

• Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
• Paul Thurrott's WinInfo
• Windows Weekly
• Windows IT Pro Magazine
• Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - His now defunct blog
• Thurrott.com - A personal site mostly consisting of photos
• Paul Thurrott's Amazon.com Profile