Microsoft announces open app store rules to prove it’s okay with new laws

[Kent Sharkey]

The Verge[^]:

Microsoft has announced a set of best practices called the Open App Store Principles for its Windows app store and future game console marketplaces.

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[David ONeil]

Quote:

Microsoft won’t deliberately rank its own apps over competing ones and will apply consistent, transparent moderation rules

In other words, all apps will continue to be equally unfindable in the store.

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[oofalladeez343]

So nothing has changed?