Todd Brix, general manager of the Windows apps and store team, wrote in a blog post: "Earlier this year we heard loud and clear that people were finding it more difficult to find the apps they were searching for; often having to sort through lists of apps with confusing or misleading titles."

Microsoft has removed more than 1,500 apps from the Windows Store as part of a new effort to crack down on shady, misleading apps.

Microsoft has modified the Windows Store app certification policy. There are now new requirements for the way apps are named, categorized, and represented.

"Most of the developers behind apps that are found to violate our policies have good intentions and agree to make the necessary changes when notified," Brix wrote. "Others have been less receptive, causing us to remove more than 1,500 apps as part of this review so far."

If you find a shady app, use the "report concern to Microsoft" link in the Store to bring it to the company's attention. Microsoft said it will "gladly refund" the cost of an app that has been downloaded as a result of an inaccurate title or description.