Windows Calculator is now open source under MIT license
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https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator
>35k lines of code
Nice to see microsoft opensourceing their stuff more and more. Now i wonder if its too much to ask for ms-dos 6.22 /7.0(ms dos 7 was used on the Win 9X line, while 8.0 was used on Win ME) to be open sourced.
Shame you cant get this to work on linux though.
The W10 calc takes far to long to load, overwrote it with windows 7's because its not shit.
When I hit my calculator key to run some hex values I want it to be instant, not fancy UWP slowness.
Only thing that I still use Window's Calculator for is their programming, HEX, binary and bitwise functions.
Otherwise, may I recommend the much superior Console Calc:
Console Calculator (CCalc) « ZoeSoft
Personally I've been using Speedcrunch since switching to Windows 10. It's quite flexible and starts up faster than the Windows 10 calculator. It does start a little slower than the Windows 7 one but considering how much more it can do that's not really a surprise.
I've argued about this before but it REALLY seems to differ between people
For some it takes seconds to open, for me it's instant...
I still prefer other calculators but yeah
It took more than 8x that long when I just tried starting it and that's how it's been since I upgraded to Win10. In comparison the Win7 calculator never took more than a second at worst and typically took so little time that it would load before I could even move my mouse to where it was opening.
Probably a difference between using an SSD and a physical hard drive. It's pretty instant for me.
Or perhaps having more ram, since it seems like it's the kind of thing windows would try to cache
for some inexplicable reason, before I upgraded to a SSD it used to take 20 seconds to launch.
XAML C++? Yo I'm out of the loop here when did that happen?
It's been fucking ages since I've seen computer advice offered here.
I prefer a physical calculator
I mean even on my old ass laptop that has a 5400RPM HHD, the calculator doesn't take more than a second to load. Not saying it's PEBKAC (Windows has a tendency to fuck itself up, obviously), but long loading times is definitely not an inherent feature of the app.
I love how one of the examples that the Microsoft lackey gives of why telemetry is good is for measuring how long the program takes to launch - something that is slowed down by the telemetry!
Do you genuinely think telemetry isn't extremely useful for software developers
I track a ton of metrics for the various websites my company operates. Tracking things from page load times, interaction rates, errors, performance, API usage, etc.
Without this sort of data, developers would be relying on nearly-worthless customer complaints. It'd be like going from having a dedicated Accountant who does your taxes to trying to do it all yourself with a pencil and paper and no references to any tax laws or resources whatsoever.
My mistake, I thought a software's utility was for the consumer.
Are you capable of reading?
This data is used to improve the fucking product for the consumer.
This.... literally isn't what that is?
There's healthy use of customer data and unhealthy use, from what I can tell here, this is healthy use. Imo, there should be an option stuck somewhere that lets you personally turn it off, but otherwise I find it hard to take issue with this.
Even regarding performance, he provided no evidence. It's quite likely that it's something handled in the background with utterly minuscule measurable impact.
It loads literally instantly for me, it feels like it appears literally the next frame after I click on it.
But that could be because I boot from an NVMe SSD.
Mine is about the same time as the fade in animation on the taskbar so like a half second? On a Sandy Bridge era HP office PC. Granted, it does have a SATA 2 SSD.
Something tells me its not a UWP resource issue, and more of a "something is fucky with your Windows installation" issue.
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