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Random keys are added to keyboards all the time. In this case Microsoft is requiring it from all their PC vendors.
by paxys 3y ago
Random keys are added to keyboards all the time. In this case Microsoft is requiring it from all their PC vendors.
- troebr 3y agoOof. This should be more like a media key than a required key. I view it like a "Volume up/down" key, it's nice but not essential. Although it's probably much less useful than a volume key.
- regularfry 3y agoYou could say the same about the Windows key itself. Many did.
- number6 3y agoYou mean the super key or command key...
- bityard 3y agoThis should really be the top comment in the whole thread because almost all of the comments I've read so far are missing this point. Yes, _keyboard manufacturers_ are allowed to add/remove any keys that they want. But most PC users are not buying keyboards from third-party vendors. They are buying them as part of the whole PC from OEMs like Dell, HP, and Lenovo. And the Windows OEM license agreements for those vendors state (to paraphrase), "If you want to ship Windows on your systems, you have to include the Windows and Copilot keys on the keyboard." And it follows that keyboard manufacturers _want_ to have their keyboards include all the same keys as the OEMs so that they can claim complete compatibility with the OEMs, possibly to the point of calling the keyboards Microsoft Windows(TM) Compatible on the box.