To build the Calculator app, you’ll need a Windows 10 computer and Visual Studio. You might think that this is the same code that’s been shipping for 30 years — it’s a simple calculator ...

In a GitHub project released today by Microsoft, the full source code for the Windows Calculator is now available to anyone who wants to give it a download and try compiling it.

Microsoft is making available the Windows Calculator source code, build system, tests and roadmap as open source under an MIT license.

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To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 – dubbed Altair BASIC – which became the company's first product.