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Microsoft promises it is 'ending USB-C port confusion' with updated Windows 11 certified program
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This only goes part way to solving the problem. Its good that all the ports are required to support display and power as well as connectivity, but how many screens at what resolutions and is every port capable of powering the laptop fully? These things matter in the real world. What infuriates me most is that so many manufacturers don't actually list precisely what a port is capable of, making you guess if a displayport dongle dependent on DP pass through will work or not on the port that is remaining. So many have issues where you can't actually run the laptop at full power from a thunderbolt dock into their thunderbolt port because they don't support being fully powered that way.
Then there is the enormous gulf in performance between USB 3.1, 2x2 and USB 4.
The USB standards board made this mess and made too much of the ports features optional and now its a giant mess. We can start by requiring not that the ports meet a minimum requirement, but that they fully and completely specify what the actual standards are that the ports support in the specifications and require they use the existing logos next to the ports.