how could it possibly be that urgent that it needs a key dedicated to it
It’s probably like the Bixby button on my Samsung phone: all it does is complain I haven’t set it up yet when I accidentally push it while changing the volume.
You don’t just remap it to screen on and off?
Woo-hoo! Secondary hyper modifier key - can’t wait!!!
Soon we’ll be able to emacs the way the developers intended.
Yay! I petition to call it Duper
Lol fuck off Microdong.
Just make it remapable (is that a word?) and I don’t really care
I don’t think you can easily remap keys in Windows.
Remapping instructions are here
More like micBlow$oft
Is copilot another windows app I’ll need to uninstall? Thanks for the heads up!
It should be the reason to switch to Linux, finally, again.
Nope
They did this same thing with Mocrosoft Teams. Microsoft execs are some of the dumbest laziest people.
reminds me of the chromebook search key
Just realized my keyboard is 22 years old.
They’re really pushing this AI shit fr
It is literally just windows-C to open copilot. Good grief. 🤣
And being marketed as “our first upgrade to PC keyboards in 30 years”. I want to be in the marketing teams conference room when this got pitched.
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As long as it’s treated like a media key and not an intrusion of the standard, then I couldn’t care less. It’s a stupid idea, but Microsoft is so often full of those.
Edit> And after reading the article…of course MS is intruding on the standard just like they did with the windows key, but at least that one was turned into “meta” or “super”. I guess this will guarantee I won’t buy another MS keyboard.
It’s Microsoft, intrusion of standards is their entire M.O.
It’s the “extend” in “embrace, extend, extinguish”.
On the other hand… Super Duper Key.
Touché
The Windows key turning into “super” and getting some use on Linux was just Linux DE finding a use for that key nobody asked for.
Couldn’t they just convert some existing unused key, like Scroll Lock? To be honest, even Pause/Break seems outdated to me.
So it disappears without Windows?
I guess we’ll have to find a use for that new key on Linux, and Linux laptop vendors will end up with some alternative symbol for it…
maybe bring back the hyper key! (Wikipedia link)
