BREAKING NEWS

MICROSOFT OPEN SOURCES CALCULATOR

Stop the madness Microsoft

Uwp in C++??
@JS96

@CozyPlanes MS has a managed version of C++ called C++/CLI, probably that?

@-red off topic, but thanks for the ++

@-red ah I meant, me thanking you for the ++ wasn't related to OP's post.

Inb4 doom port to calculator

@theKarlisK Not only Windows, but all microsoft software :O (I bet there are people who make huge deal out of small thing ...)

" *help* build the calculator".

Seeing how they abused Windows 10 releases with the Windows Insiders and overall poor quality of the OS, I'm sure their intention is to just freeload off the geeks.

@CozyPlanes Yes! You can write UWPs in C#, C++ and JS

@theKarlisK One century later:
Aaaah finally we figured out what our ancestors failed to do. This giiit haaab thing needs to be put to sleep, waste of time and money!

@theKarlisK Ya I think that's where they are heading to... One platform to rule them all, well since they have "Azure Pipelines" now

@DangerousDev 😎
JS? Really?

“Look how fucking edgy I am for mocking Microsoft regardless of what they do” - people in this comment section

@iamavalos But...why? It's not like anyone thinks "oh I would love to use Linux but unfortunately it doesn't run the Windows calculator".

Now we finally can fix the button that is shifted to the left by 1px!

It's the Windows 10 one, right? Because I've found a bug in the Windows 7 one once.

Nope, it's also in the Windows 10 one.

Here is the link: https://github.com/Microsoft/...

And yes, it is the Windows 10 version.

Never knew it was this complicated to make a calculator

@CozyPlanes why wouldn't it be? Calculators are complicated...

@Redders I thought it would be
It wasn't

@CozyPlanes It isn't, if you just have the buttons from 0-9 and +-*/. But you can go arbitrarily far, from Windows calculator to Qalculate to Wolfram Alpha to Geogebra to …

@CozyPlanes yep

@CozyPlanes Yes, you can. :P

Binder injections coming up!

Ah, from the guys with the infamous "how to build a pc" video. Excellent choice! 👌

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

The filename casing inconsistency there kills me

This is game changing. This will change humanity. Thanos will be very afraid of this legendary Microsoft calculator!

£99 annual fee. £129 for premium

They should do the same with notepad too

@FrodoSwaggins we've had them since the 1960s, but that doesn't make them simple, just because many things are much more complex doesn't make them simple...
You may be able to build one from parts with instructions, but could you build one without instructions or technical diagrams? How long would if take to figure it out?

None of that makes them simple, you have a load of knowledge that makes it appear simple.
But ultimately pretty much everything we touch these days is complicated when you consider the amount of prior research and experimentation that went into the things that came before.
Sure, *many* things are orders of magnitude more complicated, but that doesn't make everything that is less complicated automatically simple.