I’m excited to announce Notepad, a new weekly newsletter I’ll be writing at The Verge. Notepad is an inside look at my notes on Microsoft, a company I’ve spent the past 20 years trying to make sense of through my reporting, scoops, and analyses. This newsletter is designed to uncover the secrets and strategy behind Microsoft’s era-defining bets on AI, gaming, and the future of computing.
Over the past 20 years, I’ve broken thousands of stories on Microsoft. Some of my early important reporting included details on a Windows 2000 source code leak, thousands of Hotmail account passwords that were posted online, and regular scoops on Windows releases. I led the technology news site Neowin as editor-in-chief in the early 2000s, then went on to create WinRumors — my own blog all about Microsoft — in 2010.