Microsoft Store auto-updates installed dev client, overwriting the dev client with retail, or corrupting it.

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Partner Team Reporting: 57Digital

Verification builds: 1.21.3.0 Win10_25472684

Regression Builds: Before 1.21.3.0 25472684

Summary: Microsoft Store auto-updates installed dev client, overwriting the dev client with retail. Today, when rebooting, we were unable to open Minecraft at all.

Impact: Unable to open Minecraft. Productivity loss.

Repro Steps:

1. Use a Microsoft account that has purchased retail Minecraft before (but never downloaded onto the PC).

2. Install dev client.

3. Over a period of several days, observe that you may be downgraded to a retail client, or experience entire corruption of your installation to the point where Minecraft will no longer open.

Observed Results: 

On two different days:

Outcome 1: Downgraded to retail. No longer able to use dev commands, no-clip, etc.

Outcome 2: Total corruption of the Minecraft Bedrock installation.

Expected Results: 

Dev client remains installed and stable, without being overwritten automatically by the Microsoft Store. 

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