{"id":27,"date":"2024-12-17T21:08:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:16:16","slug":"microsoft-apps-i-didnt-know-were-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/microsoft-apps-i-didnt-know-were-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft apps I didn’t know were open-source"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes, I like to take a gander at Github<\/a>‘s trending repos<\/a>. Today, whilst doing such, I was surprised to see a Microsoft app titled Terminal<\/a>, available as a fully open-sourced Git repo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t what I had originally thought it was–either Command Prompt or PowerShell. But, it had me wondering what other apps were <\/em>open-source? So, I went a-browsing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS-DOS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

MS-DOS<\/a> 1.25<\/a>, 2.0<\/a>, and 4.0 source-code<\/a> are available on Github. This archived piece of history is written in primarily assembly, with a little C, so it’s not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

shelljs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve actually never heard of this one, but apparently it is a “Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js” written by Microsoft. Who knew!? It’s abandoned, and it’s domain is for sale, but it’s source code is up on Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calculator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the <\/em><\/strong>Calculator, as in the latest version that comes installed with Windows 10\/11. I am surprised to see this treasure open-sourced. Check it out here<\/a>. This one is a C++ beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PowerShell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another shocker, the latest and greatest Microsoft PowerShell<\/a> is available open-source on Github<\/a>. This command line utility comes preinstalled on Windows, but call also be installed on Linux<\/a> and Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual Studio Code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I kind of already knew\/assumed this was open-source, but it’s still cool to see. You can plunder through the huge repo on Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, I like to take a gander at Github‘s trending repos. Today, whilst doing such, I was surprised to see a Microsoft app titled Terminal, available as a fully open-sourced Git repo. It wasn’t what I had originally thought it was–either Command Prompt or PowerShell. But, it had me wondering what other apps were open-source? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.imail.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}