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Microsoft Open Sources its Windows Calculator

posted by chromas on Friday March 08 2019, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
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takyon writes:

calc.exe is now open source; there's surprising depth in its ancient code

Microsoft's embrace and adoption of open source software has continued with the surprising decision to publish the code for Windows Calculator and release it on GitHub under the permissive MIT license.

The repository shows Calculator's surprisingly long history. Although it is in some regards one of the most modern Windows applications—it's an early adopter of Fluent Design and has been used to showcase a number of design elements—core parts of the codebase date all the way back to 1995.

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday March 10 2019, @12:39AM

    by acid andy (1683) on Sunday March 10 2019, @12:39AM (#812183) Homepage Journal

    What irritated me is when, years ago, they added the different modes of operation (Scientific, Programmer, etc.) but when you did a calculation in one mode and switched to another mode, the answer on the screen was cleared. Previously I'm pretty sure you could calculate some value in hex for example and then apply a trigonometric function to it. Not anymore, at least without copying and pasting. Someone obviously thought the different modes would make it easier to use!

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