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Laurent was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022-2023. He's currently the Senior News Editor of Thurrott.com.

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First Ring Daily: Skype Gets Zune’d

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s decision to retire Skype in May 2025, with the company encouraging users to transition to the free version of Microsoft Teams.

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First Ring Daily: Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Breakthrough

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Majorana 1, Microsoft’s first quantum chip which required the company to create an entirely new state of matter.

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First Ring Daily: They Won

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss phone upgrade cycles, Microsoft offloading its HoloLens US military contract to another company, and how the upcoming Microsoft Build and Google I/O developer conferences are about to overlap each other in May.

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First Ring Daily: Microsoft Earnings Aftermath

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY2025 Q2 earnings and whether the company’s massive investments in AI are starting to pay off.

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First Ring Daily: Microsoft is Changing

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss organizational shakeups at Microsoft, including the recent departure of the company’s Executive Vice President of business development.

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First Ring Daily: Copilot Gets Costly

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss how Microsoft is using Copilot to raise the price of its Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions just days after announcing new on-demand AI agents for the commercial version of the AI assistant.

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First Ring Daily: What The Dell Happened?

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss some of the biggest news of CES 2025 including Dell’s simplified PC portfolio, new CPUs from Intel and AMD, and Nvidia’s new GPUs and AI tools for PCs.

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First Ring Daily: Twenty-Five

In this first episode of First Ring Daily of the new year, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss what to expect from the CES 2025 trade show that will officially kick off next week.

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First Ring Daily: Just a Button

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s recent Copilot key changes, Asus announcing a new Copilot+ PC NUC, and CES 2025 being just around the corner.

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First Ring Daily: More of the Same

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft deprecating suggested actions in Windows 11 and all the different flavors of Copilot that probably confuse customers.

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First Ring Daily: Big Changes for Intel

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel’s ongoing troubles after the chip maker abruptly “retired” its CEO Pat Gelsinger.

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First Ring Daily: Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 Announcements

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Ignite conference for IT Pros this week, as well as the US DOJ formally recommending that Google should be forced to divest itself of its Chrome web browser.

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