The Windows Store was traditionally just scams with blatant trademark infringement. This has severely damaged their rep. A quick search now shows a lot of it is

The Windows Store was traditionally just scams with blatant trademark infringement. This has severely damaged their rep. A quick search now shows a lot of it is cleared up. Unfortunately, that just leaves the shovelware junk. Here is an interesting point: Right now, the #3 top free app is "Freeflix/Free Movies Unlimited"[1] and #4 is a "free Mp3 downloader". The publisher for the free movies is "Wamba Dev" which results in no related hits on Google outside of Windows Store. Contact is a hotmail account, and the privacy policy is on "dopeware.com". So Microsoft isn't even able to get real publishers in top positions on its own Store. Pretty damn sad. Also the Metro runtime is diseased and broken. Opening the Store app right now to do these searches took about 15 seconds. On a decently high-end ThinkPad. It's embarrassingly bad. Even the Metro calc takes 2-3 seconds to open, ffs. 1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/store/apps/freeflix-free-movies-unlimited/9nblggh1z0m4 https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/store/apps/freeflix-free-mov...