There was some commotion around this, because Microsoft seemed to have deleted the application from the Microsoft Store, but provided “zero explanation” for the reason for the deletion. However, the company later “apologized” to the developer in a follow-up email sent by it, and also explained the reason for the deletion.
Franco had earlier announced that these reasons were indeed “legitimate” and decided to share them on his blog.
It turns out that Franco secretly released the application to the Microsoft Store (which is why it can be used privately) without passing through Microsoft’s initial certification inspection process. However, during the update of WSATools to version 0.1.56, the application was discovered by the automatic authentication checker, which is why it was deleted for the second time.
As far as I know, WSATools went through such an automatic authentication check on the second day after the 0.1.56 update was pushed, and it was deleted.
In addition, Franco said that Microsoft is not too happy about the name “WSATools” itself, because WSA orWindowsSubsystem for Android is an official term.
WSATools has… WSA. Microsoft doesn’t like this, even if “WSA” is not a trademark, but I understand why. They don’t want this app to be considered or misunderstood as official.
Microsoft recommends that you either change the name of the application or fully explain that WSATools has nothing to do with Microsoft itself. Franco said that after completing these tasks, the application will be made publicly available on the Microsoft Store sometime next year.