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2025 was a strange year for podcasts: I added four new shows but my overall listening time was down by about 50 percent year-over-year. I chalk that up to a big lifestyle change this past year in which we spent over half our time in Mexico City, where … Continue reading My Favorite Podcasts of 2025 ⭐
Windows 11 quietly shifted the way we manage apps, protect data, and interact with our devices in 2025. This episode reveals the must-try upgrades.
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Paul Thurrott is back to talk about everything that happened to Windows in 2025, and what that might hold for 2026.
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Bonjourr is a free Momentum-like minimalist New Tab replacement that I use in every web browser and recommend to everyone.
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I love to read and 2025 was a big year for books, especially technology industry books. Here’s what my year in reading looked like.
📖 Books
I read e-books semi-exclusively through Kindle and usually on my iPad Air.
📗 Favorite non-fiction title
Apple in… Continue reading My Favorite Books and Audiobooks of 2025 ⭐
Happy Friday and Happy Holidays! Here’s a short-ish edition of Ask Paul for this short week and extra-long weekend.
📥 The outlook for Outlook
Christian-Gaeng asks:
Since the Outlook team wants to relaunch the development of the new Outlook around AI, a… Continue reading 🎁 Ask Paul: December 26 ⭐
I’ve been playing multiplayer first person shooters since the initial release of DOOM in 1993. This was such a long time ago that I had to download the shareware freebie episode, consisting of 8 or 9 levels, over multiple days using my dial-up connecti… Continue reading Have a Blast ⭐
Here’s a look back at the apps, services, and games I started using in 2025. As with previous years, there was a lot of change, and a fairly obvious push to calm down Big Tech predations while adopting more Little Tech solutions.
Previous years: 2024, … Continue reading My New Apps, Services, and Games of 2025 ⭐
One of my earliest memories of personal technology is in some ways quite clear and in others a bit fuzzy, as memories usually are, I guess. I was in a Sears department store with my mother and I wandered over to a display of what I sort of remember to … Continue reading From the Editor’s Desk: Early Influences ⭐
Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade.
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