Just realized my keyboard is 22 years old.
i run linux on a surface and it’s great. when it breaks beyond repair though, i won’t get another because of bullshit like this
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.
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.
Couldn’t they just convert some existing unused key, like Scroll Lock? To be honest, even Pause/Break seems outdated to me.
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.
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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.
They’re really pushing this AI shit fr
I am getting flashbacks to the multimedia keyboards on yesteryear:
https://deskthority.net/wiki/Multimedia_keyboard
Thanks MS, but no thanks, I don’t need it.
yeah, the media controls are actually useful.
I love these, it has actual useful keys
I will admit that the volume wheel was awesome
Really milking that fad before they inevitably push anything useful behind a monthly paywall.
As long as the ability to manually turn off secureboot and remove the OS isn’t locked behind a subscription…
Can’t help but think about how Facebook inc rebranded itself to Meta to chase/promote the metaverse fad.
Oh “great”, more crap between Ctrl and Alt.
[Grumpy grandpa] In my times, the space row only had five keys! And we did more than those youngsters do with eight, now nine keys!
From the picture, it’s just the context menu key with a new key cap.
That’s still a new key for some people. My laptop doesn’t have a context key, for example.
In my time it was also nine. Back to the roots. ;->
Wonder if it will be CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + C
Now I’m wondering, with which fingers would you press all those buttons? The most comfortable way to press these keys with 1 hand is to rotate the keyboard 180 degrees
They don’t intend for you to, it’s just easier to make a giant button combo that their generic HID driver handles as a special case than to create a custom keyboard protocol with their special key enums and a custom driver that only windows supports.
Why? Win+C launches Copilot already, if you want to use it. It’s simple enough currently, why change it? This will just make everything worse.
Why? Investment hype
So you can pressed accidentally activating the fucking AI and make the numbers go up so Microsoft can then go and say to investors look millions are using my AI. So annoying.
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