Microsoft Announces New Features for Windows 10 Calculator App

Microsoft open-sourced the Windows 10 Calculator app earlier this 12 months, inviting devs and customers alike to contribute to the event of this important software that comes bundled into the OS.

And it seems just like the work on this regard has superior on the anticipated tempo, so this week, the software program large introduced a few new options coming to the Calculator.

Dave Grochocki, who’s a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft engaged on Notepad and the Windows Calculator, revealed on Twitter that an inside construct of the app now comes with help for protecting it at all times on prime.

In different phrases, in case you run the Calculator app, you may preserve its window at all times on prime, so the opposite apps working on the display received’t cowl it. This means you are able to do your operations fairly simply, with out having to at all times click on its taskbar icon to carry the app again in focus each time.

Hello, mini mode!

Additionally, the Calculator app can be getting a mini mode, which you’ll be able to launch with a merely button in its most important UI.

This mini mode shrinks the interface of the app and retains solely the important options on the display, so in case you’re working with a number of apps, it’ll be simpler to see the Calculator. You can then simply return to the complete mode of the Calculator with out shedding any knowledge.

Microsoft hasn’t present any particulars as to when these two new options of the Calculator app would change into accessible for all customers, however they may go dwell for insiders sooner or later within the coming weeks.

If you wish to contribute to the event of the Calculator app in Windows 10, or to easily regulate the venture and see how all the pieces improves over time, you may try the official web page on GitHub right here.

One of our prime requested #WindowsCalculator options is the flexibility to maintain Calculator on prime of different home windows as you’re employed—you may quickly be capable of do exactly that! 😁 Also, tiny calculator!! https://t.co/AEqu4nkhb4 #BuildTogether pic.twitter.com/TJpkXrRIL4
— Dave Grochocki (@dgrochocki) July 30, 2019