Paul Thurrott

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Paul Thurrott (born October 29, 1966)^[1] is a technology reporter, published author, podcaster, and news editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine. He regularly writes reviews for beta and completed Microsoft products, such as Windows Vista and Office 2007. Thurrott has also reviewed Apple products, such as the iPod, Mac OS X, and other Mac related software. He is the host of Windows Weekly on TWiT.TV with Leo Laporte,^[2] a podcast attracting over 80,000 downloads for each episode.^[3]

Contents 1 Criticisms 2 List of works 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Criticisms

Some critics charge that Thurrott writes from an emotional position and lacks technical knowledge in the subjects he writes about (for example, not understanding that Vista's metadata search uses third-party plug-ins for unknown file formats or claiming that Service Pack 2 for Windows XP brought more system-level changes than Mac OS X v10.4). Bloggers Ed Bott^[4] and Robert McLaws^[5] have chastised Thurrott for poor journalistic integrity. Thurrott was also criticized for a price comparison between a Mac Pro and Dell Precision workstation that had different specifications.

In order to setup a straw man's argument, Paul has also been found to comment on his own winsupersite blog using fake ids^{[citation needed]}

[edit] List of works

• Great Digital Media with Windows XP
• Windows XP Home Networking
• Windows XP Power Toolkit (with Walter Bruce and David Chernicoff)
• Windows Vista Secrets (with Brian Livingston)

[edit] References