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Whoa, it appears to be written in C++/CLI. I wonder how much Windows code also is, and how it impacts maintainability.
MS goes on to open source the famous and non interesting parts of its products. What's next? Notepad, Ms Paint? Shall we see anything bigger than VS Code?
"Microsoft open sources MSPaint.exe" two weeks later "Show HN: I added transparency support to MSPaint" two (more) weeks later "Adobe shares plummet as users cancel their subscriptions to Creative Cloud by the thousands, analysts baffled"
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator#data--telemetry "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." Even on a simple calculator.
One interviewer told me that keystrokes were being measured by conhost.exe. Not just for internal testing. He clarified that it was done on customer machines. It wasn't clear if they collected individual key presses because we were discussing something you could infer by knowing keystroke timing.
Windows 10 is the most prolific malware in the world.
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator#data--telemetry "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." Even on a simple calculator.
Here's what they are actually collecting: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator#data--telemetry "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." Even on a simple calculator.
I'm not sure if I should be disturbed or amused by Microsoft putting telemetry in (at this rate) literally every one of its products. Like, what the hell do they even track? I guess the obvious ones are things like application crashes, but now I'm curious if they have the data on the most common calculations, folks' favorite numbers, etc.
This is cool, but I really wish they'd release the source for the original Notepad. No real reason other than "this software was really important to me when I was a kid". As it stands, though, Calculator is not something I've particularly cared about in the Windows world; pretty much anyone here could write a simple calculator app in an afternoon. Still, I am glad MS is slowly becoming more OSS-friendly; I doubt anyo…
I might try to commit to this. I've always found the "App" version of Calculator lacking compare to its Win32 predecessor. In particular History. On the old Calculator you could double-click the history and edit the equation, and get a new result, no go on the App. Plus the Programmer UI, while being more powerful is actually harder to use since the information is now split between two screens rather than one. Oh and…
I don't know if it has the features you're missing, I use it because I don't like the look and feel of the new apps.