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Microsoft has released the code for the Calculator application. This initiative is the latest in Microsoft's efforts to capitalize on the open source community. Earlier efforts have been the Open Sourcing of a very old version of DOS and the adaptation of Linux to Windows in a slightly more user-friendly way than creating a virtual machine or accessing your Linux partition. Oh yes, Microsoft bought Github. I can not forget that.
Publishing the Calculator application code means that you too can really verify that all your calculations are correct. To create the Calculations application, you will need a Windows 10 computer and Visual Studio. You may think it's the same code used for 30 years – it's a simple calculator, is not it? Not really: the calculator for Windows 8 had a weird and strange bug where the square root of 4, minus two, was not equal to zero. Floating point is difficult, children.
Of particular interest to the community, it is now possible to disable telemetry sent from the Calculator application to Microsoft servers. Yes, the calculator application knows that you have forgotten how to divide, and wow man, six times nine, did you need help with that? Fortunately, telemetry can be disabled in development versions by disabling the SEND_TELEMETRY build a flag. Now, Microsoft will not know you're not as good at maths.
At the time of writing these lines, we could not be bothered to contact Microsoft to find out when the pinball game or Ski Free would be updated and Open Sourced.
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