Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994::Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    891·
    11 months ago

    No, fuck you. It’s hard enough to find a keyboard with Ctrl and Alt in the positions I prefer these days. I don’t need any of the current keys smaller to make room for another one, the only times I hit that stupid key between them is quickly followed by cursing. I remove the windows key from my gaming keyboards because I don’t need it, FN is also a pain, especially when there’s no fn lock toggle. Why don’t we just use that as an alternate key? Microsoft go fuck yourself.

      • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Um… that’s your example of a “wild” keyboard? I would’ve gone with a “Steno” keyboard. Which is inspired by the custom keyboards used in court houses to write transcripts. Typing on them is crazy fast too.

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Holy forking shirtballs, the longer I look at that the worse it gets

        As a PowerShell scripter, having the backtick and pipe keys moved with the escape and delete in their places would just drive me batty

          • fl42v@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Is this one supposed to be worse? 'Cause rn it’s marginally better (split spacebar => ~3 keys for each thumb instead of 2.5).

              • fl42v@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                Personally, I find layers more convenient. Like numbers on qwerty…, shift+numbers on asdf…, and all that stuff

                • HelloHotel@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  11 months ago

                  I love layers too, caps lock is my escape key/modifier key now and im happy.

                  Also, do you like to peck and type your numbers using “Fn”, “Fn1”, “Pn”, the illusive green modifier or all of them at once for capital numbers /s

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I mean, it seemed pretty obvious from the headline, but the article specifies that while they’re doing this, it’s not like they can somehiw make the 100s (if not thousands) of different keyboard manufacturers include this key…

      What might happen later is they require OEM products to have it when they come with Windows.

      Which would still really only be an issue for laptops.

      And I’m pretty sure even people with “gaming laptops” don’t use the built in keyboard most of the time.

      I dunno tho. I’ve never been able to understand the people who buy gaming laptops.

  • ViscloReader@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    I don’t want that, plus in the article they say it’s only to open copilot search. Which you can already do with windows+c. And who asked for copilot search? Not to be mean but the basic window search somehow never works right for me and always bring me on the Edge browser instead of opening my files. So if they could fix that instead of bringing AI to still not give me what I want other than a statisticaly correct sentence that would be nice.

    • Gumus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I highly recommend PowerToys Run (something like Mac’s Spotlight) with Everything plugin (better search).

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    143·
    11 months ago

    Put some dang standard labels on the function keys.

    F1 = Help

    F2 = Rename

    F3 = Search

    F4 = Close

    F5 = Refresh

    F6-F10 = Decorative

    F11 = Full screen

    F12 = Goto definition

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    I will not buy any computer with that. The windows icon is one thing but that is over the fucking line.

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    I’m already not using 30% of my keyboard’s keys so it’d only be one more😅

    Anyway, I don’t plan on using anything windows related for the rest of my life except in a VM.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The exact positioning, and the key being replaced, may vary depending on the size and layout of the keyboard.

    If nothing else, this new key is a sign of how much Microsoft wants people to use Copilot and its other generative AI products.

    Plenty of past company initiatives—Bing, Edge, Cortana, and the Microsoft Store, to name a few—never managed to become baked into the hardware like this.

    If Copilot fizzles or is deemphasized the way Cortana was, the Copilot key could become a way to quickly date a Windows PC from the mid-2020s, the way that changes to the Windows logo date keyboards from earlier eras.

    Chipmakers like Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are all building neural processing units (NPUs) into their latest silicon, and we’ll likely see more updates for Windows apps and features that can take advantage of this new on-device processing capability.

    Microsoft says the Copilot key will debut in some PCs that will be announced at the Consumer Electronics Show this month.

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