LMicrosoft’s relationship with CCleaner has never been good. As a general rule, those from Redmond are wary of applications whose specialty is touching the bowels of the operating system. And this attitude is understandable, because the improper modification of the configuration registry, the deletion of certain key system files and other similar operations, which can be carried out by mistake by this type of software, can have disastrous effects on it.
But the case of CCleaner goes further. In 2015, a chief Microsoft engineer made his opinion of CCleaner very clear for the reason he stated above, but things took a turn for the worse when, in 2018, it was first known that a version of the program had a backdoor, and only a month after. , CCleaner returned to this in the pillory for the inclusion of advertising. But the auction certainly took place in 2019, when Microsoft went further by adding it to its blacklist.
As we told you at the time, this means that CCleaner should not appear on commercial pages, they cannot be recommended there and the comments or interventions of the users that include links to the software or to its website are eliminated, either by the automatic moderation systems or by the moderators of said communities. In other words, we are talking about a full-fledged bolt.
Surprisingly though, it seems to have gone from being blacklisted to greylisted, or maybe even whitelisted, because for a few days it is possible to install CCleaner from the Microsoft Store, the Windows app store. This seems to confirm Microsoft’s tendency to open up with its store, which already caused, a few months ago, that Mozilla Firefox also made the leap to the Windows store for the first time in its history.
It is obvious that in Redmond have set themselves the goal of making the Windows App Store more attractive for users, and obviously a key factor for that is that it has the most searched applications by users. To do this, the company has relaxed the necessary rules for the inclusion of software in the store, so it is possible that we will receive more surprising news about it in the coming months.
Now that Microsoft has opened its hand so much that allow the inclusion of software in your store that until now was practically prohibited on your website, and that in addition to this mode allows its installation even on systems with fairly high security settings, such as Windows 10 and 11 S, is surprising to say the least. Have there been changes to CCleaner that allow Microsoft to consider it safe? Or have you decided to relinquish control over what users of your operating system do? Or maybe a happy medium between the two?
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