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Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Calculator (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the marching-forward dept.

Microsoft said today it has made the source code for its Windows calculator available on GitHub. The company said it hopes to work with contributors to improve the user experience of Windows calculator. In a statement, Dave Grochocki and Howard Wolosky of Microsoft said: Today, we're excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives and increased participation to help define the future of Calculator. As developers, if you would like to know how different parts of the Calculator app work, easily integrate Calculator logic or UI into your own applications, or contribute directly to something that ships in Windows, now you can. Calculator will continue to go through all usual testing, compliance, security, quality processes, and Insider flighting, just as we do for our other applications.

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  1. Re:Port to Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There's got to be at least a dozen more capable calculator apps out there for windows and Linux.

    WTF is this worthy of even a post.

    Wait...msmash, who spends her day adding up her nickels per post on a windows calculator

  2. Link was at the very end of the article by thegreatbob · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://github.com/Microsoft/c...

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    1. Re:Link was at the very end of the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I found this interesting, from the readme:

      This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. Telemetry is disabled in development builds by default, and can be enabled with the SEND_TELEMETRY build flag.

      The OS's built-in calculator app collects telemetry? Really??

    2. Re:Link was at the very end of the article by SurenEnfiajyan · · Score: 3, Informative

      And here is the flag https://github.com/Microsoft/c...

  3. Re:Because they want it to be better! by JackieBrown · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use notepad to remove formatting from text copied somewhere else.

    That and if I don't have time to wait for a word processor to open.

  4. Re: Because they want it to be better! by Comboman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wordpad is not a text editor, it's a very basic word processor which uses Rich-Text-Format (though it can save in TXT by stripping out the extra formatting). When looking for "more" in a text editor, it's usually features like syntax highlighting, macros, CR-LF conversion, etc.

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  5. Re:Because they want it to be better! by EvilSS · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those that don't want to give the Verge clicks https://www.techspot.com/news/75473-microsoft-updates-notepad-long-awaited-features-latest-windows.html

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  6. #ifdef SEND_TELEMETRY by SurenEnfiajyan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even calculator is spying.

  7. Re:Thin edge of wedge? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Dipping their toes?" Wow, where have you been? They've already released THOUSANDS of open source projects, including some massive ones, like .NET core.

    https://opensource.microsoft.c...

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