Microsoft Announces New Features for Windows 10 Calculator App

Microsoft open-sourced the Windows 10 Calculator app earlier this year, inviting devs and users alike to contribute to the development of this essential tool that comes bundled into the OS.

And it looks like the work in this regard has advanced at the expected pace, so this week, the software giant announced a couple of new features coming to the Calculator.

Dave Grochocki, who is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on Notepad and the Windows Calculator, revealed on Twitter that an internal build of the app now comes with support for keeping it always on top.

In other words, if you run the Calculator app, you can keep its window always on top, so the other apps running on the screen won’t cover it. This means you can do your operations quite easily, without having to always click its taskbar icon to bring the app back in focus every time.

Hello, mini mode!

Additionally, the Calculator app is also getting a mini mode, which you can laun... (read more)

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