The Windows 10 Calculator is now open source
Microsoft announces that it has made the Windows 10 Calculator open source: the code is freely accessible on GitHub, along with all the tools to compile the program.
Microsoft is gradually making more and more open source software, with a net policy change compared to the Ballmer era. The last program to become open source is the Windows 10 Calculator, which was published in its entirety on GitHub.
Included in the release are the source code, the build system, the unit tests and the development roadmap. This makes it possible not only to inspect and compile the code, but also to contribute to it. Microsoft specifies in the announcement that it will accept contributions from third party developers and that any change will be subject to the usual release procedures (including code checks).
It is interesting to see instead how the community immediately moved to understand if Microsoft collected information through the Calculator and if so, which ones. The answer is yes, and among the data collected, we find the data pasted in the calculator, and the conversions made from one unit of measurement to another. Telemetry is disabled by default in the version distributed via GitHub.
