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Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer

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Microsoft Deserves A πŸ‘ For Open Sourcing It's Calculator on Github

Finally get a peek under the hood here.

It was a nice move, the PRs and issues are awesome πŸ‘ check it out.

How can we benefit from it?

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Glenn Carremans β€’ β€’ Edited

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, ...).

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Ondrej β€’

Of 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.

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Glenn Carremans β€’

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.

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Ondrej β€’

Yes :)

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Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer β€’

haha

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Theofanis Despoudis β€’

Well now you can compile this on your Windows without telemetry on

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Emanuele Sabbadini β€’

yes, 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!

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Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer β€’

actually microsoft contributes a lot to open source but this is kind of nice that it open sources one of its own.