Amazon Bans Poorly made USB Type C cables

USB C cables the new configuration of USB cable that is reversible and prevents you from plugging you from plugging in the coble incorrectly. Google engineer Benson Leung, has been on u crusade to prevent shoddy manufacturersof USB Ccables from marketing their productson Amazon. 

Amazon.com has added non-standardized USB Type-C cables to its "Prohibited listings" for the Electronics section of their site. In other words, at last, non-compliant USB-C cables, which can damage or shut down a device entirely, will be banned from sale on Amazon. This is a policy update though, and Amazon will need to police its seller community and shut down any who continue to offer non-compliant cables.

There has been issues with these shoddy cables actually damaging devices that they are plugged into. Hopefully Amazon and other marketing sites will continue to monitor these products so that consumers won't have to suffer damage to thin electronics caused by these rogue cables!

Microsoft announces at the Build Conference a new Windows 10 app converter

We always get a lot of interesting information from Microsoft from the Build Conference and this announcement should make some software writers happy to see some extra help coming from MS to convert the programs to be compatiblewith Windows 10.

"Project Centennial enables you to take your existing .NET or Win32 applications and distribute them through the Windows Store, while also enhancing them with the new device capabilities," said Microsoft Windows exec Kevin Gallo.

The "Project Centennial" app converter allows developers to easily convert legacy Win32 programs into Windows 10 compatible apps. This means that .exe and even .msi files used on older OS like Windows 7 can be seamlessly transformed into the AppX format used by Windows 10, and then be put on the Windows Store.

This should be available soon to members of the Windows Developer Preview Program. 

Update on Monday, April 4, 2016 at 12:57PM by Bob Appleby

I was reading in SuperSite for Windows article about what this tool means for the Microsoft world. It shows how serious Microsoft is about their new universal platform that will allow applications to run on any Windows 10 device. So with this tool you can convert applications to this new format and be able to run the application on Windows 10 workstations, tablets, phones and the Xbox. I this will give the opportunity of bringing over 16 million Win 32 applications into this environment.