Windows Store Being Flooded With Low Quality Duplicate Apps

December 5, 2012
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WinAppUpdate found plenty of duplicates are not just submitted but got approved too. To show an example, an app developer by the name of LunaPlena has submitted no less than 118 apps to the Store, only 3 of which are fundamentally different from the others. Meaning 115 apps are essentially carbon clones of each other, with only subtle design changes like revised colors and text. This is not the only example available, but it is enough to warrant the fact that Microsoft is not paying attention to quality after all. The app itself is very basic, like something that was coded over the weekend, but to see more than a hundred duplicates of it flood the Windows Store is even more disappointing. So, what will it be, Microsoft, quality or quantity?]]>

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Mike Johnson is a writer for The Redmond Cloud - the most comprehensive source of news and information about Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Cloud. He enjoys writing about Azure Security, IOT and the Blockchain.

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  • Ya been seeing a lot of garbage apps that are useless. None of them work, they either crash or don’t do what they are suppose to do. OR they are nothing I would ever use even as a desktop program. So far the store has been very disappointing. I’ve rarely found anything I can even use in it. And half the stuff costs money when they shouldn’t like the Emulators lol…Emulators that have been “free” as desktop programs for over 14 years

    Darrin Tyler April 24, 2013 6:16 pm Reply

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