Finally get a peek under the hood here.
It was a nice move, the PRs and issues are awesome 👍 check it out.
How can we benefit from it?
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Microsoft Deserves A 👍 For Open Sourcing It's Calculator on Github
Publish Date: Mar 11 '19
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OndrejMar 12, 2019Of course, it's extremely creepy. But to be honest, I wouldn't expect anything else from Microsoft. Also, at the same time NSA open-sourced Ghidra, so I have a feeling that Microsoft is just trying to hold the line, but Calculator? Compared to maybe best reverse-engineering platform ever created? It's just meh.
- Glenn CarremansMar 12, 2019
I agree with you that this was getting way to much attention for only open sourcing a Calculator application. Would be cool if they made the old Microsoft Paint open source.
Emanuele SabbadiniMar 11, 2019yes, it's a really good news.
I'm not a c++ developer but I will definitely check the design patterns they use and how the software is structured. moreover I'm interested in better understanding the xaml bindings.
I think it's very important that Microsoft gives its contribute to the oss community sharing knowledge.
what do you think?
cheers!
- Abdur-Rahmaan JanhangeerMar 11, 2019
actually microsoft contributes a lot to open source but this is kind of nice that it open sources one of its own.
Yeah until I saw this tweet, if a simple calculator already collects "usage data" then imagine what kind of data Microsoft is collecting in other apps (Skype, Word, ...).