Sličan problem muči Microsoft i njegov Windows Store na kojem se također mogu pronaći brojne aplikacije skoro nikakve kvalitete koje su tu samo kako bi se "developer" u društvu mogao hvaliti kako "programira" za Windows platformu.
Pohvaliti i u džep staviti 2000 dolara - iz članka How-To Geeka:
In March, 2013, Microsoft ran a promotion where they paid developers $100 for each app they submitted to the Windows Store or Windows Phone Store. They paid up to $2000 to each developer. (...) So, if you’re a developer who spent months creating an amazing app, you only got $100. if you’re a developer who could pump out twenty terrible apps in a few weeks, you’d get $2000. Microsoft’s promotion encouraged developers to do the minimum amount of possible work and create a bunch of bad apps.
Primjerice, ima aplikacija koje vam za 4,99 dolara objašnjavaju kako s Interneta preuzeti VLC i instalirati ga. Ne samo to, svaka od tih aplikacija je prošla certifikaciju (prema MS-u, za certificiranje je bilo potrebno od 1 do 3 radna dana):
People from Microsoft are actually examining each of these scammy apps, checking their content, and approving them. (...) That’s right — every single scam app in the Windows Store, including that $8.99 app for downloading iTunes, has been installed by a Microsoft certification tester. Its content has been audited for compliance to Microsoft’s policies. Clearly, Microsoft has no problem with scams in their store — either that or they aren’t actually auditing apps like they say they are.
Ars Technica javlja o promjenama - iako su u travnju uvedena stroža pravila, izgleda da su ljudi uklonjeni iz procesa certificiranja što je dovelo do hrpe copy-paste aplikacija jer se sadržaj nije provjeravao:
However, simultaneous with those changes, humans appear to have been largely removed from the app certification process. Third-party developers tell Ars that app certification used to take 1-3 business days and that test accounts (for apps that required logging in or credentials) were always used. Now certification happens within about an hour, at any time of day, with no content compliance checking at all. (...) This is why we see, for example, copy-and-paste apps such as the various media players from "Digital Cloud Technologies LLC." The company has a basic media player app, and it's been rebranded dozens of times, one "app" for each popular type of media app. So there's one for "AVI" and one for "MPEG TS" and one for "WEBM" and one for "QT" and so on and so forth.
Preporučam čitanje oba gornja članka da se stekne uvid u obim problema. Kada je najavljen Windows Store, sjećam se da su ljudi govorili kako je to isto kao i repozitoriji kod Linux distribucija. Izgleda da je stvarnost potpuno suprotna - dok se službenim repozitorijima može vjerovati da je softver u njima pouzdan, Windows Store je postao leglo scam aplikacija kojeg je preporučljivo izbjegavati.
