Windows 8 app store cyber squatting

As a user of Microsoft Windows 8, I have become increasingly displeased with the lack of control over app publishing in the Windows App Store.

The app store provides hosted copies of Metro applictations, and these appear to undergo some form of vetting.  However the store also supports links (not hosting) to Desktop applications so that software developers can have the desktop versions of their applications also searchable from the App Store.

These desktop apps appear to not undergo any vetting at all.  In the last three weeks I have found three separate links in the app store to popular desktop applications which I use.  When selecting these links, I was instead taken to a 3rd party website called "getdesktopapp.com" which supposedly hosts the files.

There's a number of reasons why this is utterly ridiculous.   For one, these "applications" in the store are nothing more than Link Bait which you are highly likely to click because, well, it's from the App Store.  Second, there is no guarantee the links themselves do not contain malware because they're not even hosted by the developer!

Microsoft needs to fix this FAST and vet all Desktop application links in the App Store to confirm they actually refer to the developer, and that the links contained within do NOT contain known Malware.  For the sake of Microsoft's own reputation, cyber squatting of application names in the app store should be impossible.