For some time now, the main mobile and desktop ecosystems are focusing all their applications in the same place as a app store, since each company names it differently. In an effort to try to prevent users from feeling cheated by any of the available applications, the Redmond-based company has started cleaning up.
Many are the developers who use the word Windows to name their applications, a name that may mislead some users. To avoid this, Microsoft began sending an email to all developers urging them to remove the word Windows from their applications or they would be withdrawn.
Since the date, many have been the creators of applications who have removed this word from the name and description. However, not all have done that has forced the Redmond-based company to start cleaning up the Microsoft Store, removing all the applications that include the name Windows in the name.
Windows has traditionally always been the operating system most used by friends of others when trying to access user data, and have always used the word Windows both in the description and in the name of the application to give confidence to users.
Apple and Google are doing the same
The other two companies that also have application stores, such as Google and Apple, are also proceeding in the same way to protect their intellectual property following the same policy. In the requirements that developers have to meet to be able to upload their applications in these stores, it is found that at no time does their name appear in the name or in the description so that does not relate to them, or false associations are created with the products or services they offer.