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> Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards To point out the obvious, no, it won't. Microsoft does not define what a PC is. Sure, they can ma

> Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards To point out the obvious, no, it won't. Microsoft does not define what a PC is. Sure, they can make up whatever fanciful hardware requirements for their own operating system that they want to, and they can force whatever absurdities they want into contracts with manufacturers. But I guarantee my PC will not have a keyboard with this key.

manuelabeledo 3y ago
> But I guarantee my PC will not have a keyboard with this key. ... And 99% of PCs around the world, will, which is indistinguishable from "requiring" it.
jl6 3y ago
They do have enough weight in the PC market to create some kind of “Made for Windows” program which would stand a good chance of swaying the keyboard manufacturers, who would no doubt love an excuse to get everyone to buy a new keyboard.
- bsimpson 3y ago
  I wonder if there's some deal attached to the use of the Windows logo on the Super key - to put a Windows logo on one, you have to put the Copilot logo on the other. I also wonder how wired Windows users are to the Windows logo on the key. Being a Mac guy, I actually don't know the history of the Windows key.
  - pests 3y ago
    I grew up using Windows and switched to Linux in my late teens. I've hopped back and forth for personal desktop while servers have always been Linux too. I honestly use the windows key 1000 times a day and I don't understand comments in here saying they don't. So many keyboard shortcuts. Plus it opens the task and search to launch programs. I'm pretty keyboard heavy, I can go hours sometimes without touching the mouse.
godelski 3y ago
> But I guarantee my PC will not have a keyboard with this key. The article is misleading and if you click on the actual video (I linked in my main comment) they're just replacing a keycap and doing a remap. Layout is the same. So... technically your PC will probably have this key, just not the printed icon on it.
- anticorporate 3y ago
  I suspect that whatever PC I have in 20 years will still have an IBM Model M keyboard attached via whatever weird combination of dongles it requires to make this true.

manuelabeledo 3y ago

> But I guarantee my PC will not have a keyboard with this key. ... And 99% of PCs around the world, will, which is indistinguishable from "requiring" it.

jl6 3y ago

They do have enough weight in the PC market to create some kind of “Made for Windows” program which would stand a good chance of swaying the keyboard manufacturers, who would no doubt love an excuse to get everyone to buy a new keyboard.

bsimpson 3y ago
I wonder if there's some deal attached to the use of the Windows logo on the Super key - to put a Windows logo on one, you have to put the Copilot logo on the other. I also wonder how wired Windows users are to the Windows logo on the key. Being a Mac guy, I actually don't know the history of the Windows key.
- pests 3y ago
  I grew up using Windows and switched to Linux in my late teens. I've hopped back and forth for personal desktop while servers have always been Linux too. I honestly use the windows key 1000 times a day and I don't understand comments in here saying they don't. So many keyboard shortcuts. Plus it opens the task and search to launch programs. I'm pretty keyboard heavy, I can go hours sometimes without touching the mouse.

godelski 3y ago

> But I guarantee my PC will not have a keyboard with this key. The article is misleading and if you click on the actual video (I linked in my main comment) they're just replacing a keycap and doing a remap. Layout is the same. So... technically your PC will probably have this key, just not the printed icon on it.

anticorporate 3y ago
I suspect that whatever PC I have in 20 years will still have an IBM Model M keyboard attached via whatever weird combination of dongles it requires to make this true.