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The Copilot key is essentially a rebranding and takeover of the context menu key. Besides a new label for the keycap and maybe a different key mapping it won't

The Copilot key is essentially a rebranding and takeover of the context menu key. Besides a new label for the keycap and maybe a different key mapping it won't effect much. It'll probably have a bigger impact on ThinkPads that will have to move Print Screen again.

dragonwriter 3y ago
> The Copilot key is essentially a rebranding and takeover of the context menu key. The...what? I mean, I know what it is, but I haven't seen a keyboard with one in a while; my Microsoft ergonomic wireless keyboard has the Fn key where it would normally be, and my Alienware laptop has a windows-key-disabling-lock-key there, and my Dell Vostro sacrifices the space to make room for having both arrow keys and a numeric pad on a laptop. So, in practice, I think this is going to be an extra key to fit in, not a repurposing, because you can't repurpose what doesn't exist.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  > I mean, I know what it is, but I haven't seen a keyboard with one in a while Logitech keyboards have them.
- goosedragons 3y ago
  It's the context menu key spot. It's often co-opted these days (especially on laptops) but if you look at the new Surface Laptop 6 or Surface Pro 10 keyboard the context menu key of the Surface Laptop 5 or prior SP Type Covers has been replaced by the copilot key. It even looks like the context menu key now on the Fn layer. I wouldn't be surprised if MS says to partners it HAS to be there next to alt. You can clearly see it's position completely replacing the old context menu key in the image of the new boldset SP type cover in this recent blogpost: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2024/03/21/introducing-surface-pro-10-for-business-and-surface-laptop-6-for-business/ https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2024/03/21/introducing-sur...
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    > It’s the context menu key spot. I’m not denying its a spot that exists; I’m saying lots of existing keyboards already replace the context menu key with something else viewed as more important, so that, whatever the preferred spot was previously called, what the actual tradeoff for the the AI certification is often won’t be the context menu key.

dragonwriter 3y ago

> The Copilot key is essentially a rebranding and takeover of the context menu key. The...what? I mean, I know what it is, but I haven't seen a keyboard with one in a while; my Microsoft ergonomic wireless keyboard has the Fn key where it would normally be, and my Alienware laptop has a windows-key-disabling-lock-key there, and my Dell Vostro sacrifices the space to make room for having both arrow keys and a numeric pad on a laptop. So, in practice, I think this is going to be an extra key to fit in, not a repurposing, because you can't repurpose what doesn't exist.

WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
> I mean, I know what it is, but I haven't seen a keyboard with one in a while Logitech keyboards have them.
goosedragons 3y ago
It's the context menu key spot. It's often co-opted these days (especially on laptops) but if you look at the new Surface Laptop 6 or Surface Pro 10 keyboard the context menu key of the Surface Laptop 5 or prior SP Type Covers has been replaced by the copilot key. It even looks like the context menu key now on the Fn layer. I wouldn't be surprised if MS says to partners it HAS to be there next to alt. You can clearly see it's position completely replacing the old context menu key in the image of the new boldset SP type cover in this recent blogpost: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2024/03/21/introducing-surface-pro-10-for-business-and-surface-laptop-6-for-business/ https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2024/03/21/introducing-sur...
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > It’s the context menu key spot. I’m not denying its a spot that exists; I’m saying lots of existing keyboards already replace the context menu key with something else viewed as more important, so that, whatever the preferred spot was previously called, what the actual tradeoff for the the AI certification is often won’t be the context menu key.