Microsoft Store has a manual review of counterfeit programs

Microsoft has a goal to improve the security of Windows 10 systems and applications, so Microsoft launched an app store feature to review proprietary apps.

For Microsoft, it also wants to create an ecosystem similar to the Apple App Store, ensuring that all apps are reviewed by the company before they can be put on the shelf and then installed.

But unfortunately, Microsoft’s app store also has a manually audited counterfeit program, this counterfeit program is pretending to be Google’s Google Photos app.

The fake program is on Microsoft Store:

This fake app that pretends to Google Photos is written directly to the developer, Google, and the names and icons are all copied directly from the Google Photos web version.

However, due to the defect of the Microsoft App Store, users can not click on the developer details and view the update records, so it is not easy to distinguish the authenticity of the application.

However, after a simple test, you can find that this so-called Google Photo Album is actually a PWA progressive web application, not a native UWP application.

To put it simply, this is where a developer directly uses the Microsoft tools to package the Google Photos web version and then add their own adware to release it.

It seems that Microsoft’s manual review is a display:

Previously, there have been other developers who used the Google name to publish the app. Last time, after the manual review process, Microsoft put it on the store.

For Microsoft, it is very urgent to expand the number of apps in the app store, so the PWA web app generated through the web page can now be submitted for review.

Apparently not willing to expand the number of applications to turn on the water to make a good impression cottage application, which was to ask how Microsoft’s auditors through the audit.

Auditors are also an important goal of Microsoft’s layoffs:

Previously, mspoweruser in the legal documents of the dispute between Microsoft and employees found that Microsoft had previously recruited a large number of temporary workers and outsourced personnel to review.

But since then, the app store has gradually lost its vitality. There are not many users and there are not many developers, so Microsoft began to dismiss many temporary workers and outsourcers.

It’s hard to say how many people Microsoft is currently reviewing the application, but it’s not optimistic to look at the fake applications that come in one after another.