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MSFT Office Web app in Chrome Webstore

Henry [PersonRank 0]

Wednesday, January 12, 2011
13 years ago6,672 views

There's an app called Office Web Apps that appears on the homepage of the Chrome Webstore in the top spot for "Popular".

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dmhifmhibiceeihlpandaabfhlbkogdi

It says it's from G.cn (which is owned by Google), links to http://office.live.com as the "Developer Website) and has "© Microsoft.com" at the bottom of the description.

There are several typos on the page and the owner isn't verified. So I guess it hasn't been added to the Webstore by Microsoft.

Do you know if this app is actually owned/managed by Microsoft (or Google)?

If not, why hasn't Google removed/corrected this "fake" app for 5 days, featured as the most popular app on the homepage and installed by over (possibly misled) 10K users?

Do you think we should report an abuse? Is this really an issue?

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