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The primary function of the Windows key has been to open the Start menu since the day it was introduced. The modifier key aspect of it was always secondary.
by ootachi 15y ago
The primary function of the Windows key has been to open the Start menu since the day it was introduced. The modifier key aspect of it was always secondary.
- 1amzave 15y ago...but that's Windows, this is not. I don't see why Microsoft's mistakes should carry over. On my keyboard, it's not even physically labeled as the "windows" key anway, it says "option" (or, if I didn't have things re-mapped, "command").
- joe_the_user 15y agoSo has Microsoft broken the modifier function too? My memory of Windows was that the Win key worked as global system modifier key. But it's been a while now...
- zokier 15y agoIn Windows tapping Win key opens Start menu, but holding it down allows it to be used as modifier. So opening Start menu is triggered by falling edge, if no other key was pressed in combination.
- zootm 15y agoIt works as a modifier if you press another key with it, else it focuses the Start Menu.
- pak 15y agoIt was broken from the start, since it was introduced in conjunction with Win95 and at that point it was designed to trigger the Start menu with a single press.
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoAFAIK (and this[1] seems to back it up), the Windows key has always been used for system-wide shortcuts since it's introduction in Win95. (I apologize for the historical artifact of a webpage linked below) [1]http://members.fortunecity.com/buchta/PCTourCD/files/win/Overview/ShortcutsWindows.htm#winkey http://members.fortunecity.com/buchta/PCTourCD/files/win/Ove...