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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would imagine this isn't going to go over very well with a lot of companies. I would bet many already ban employees using copilot or other AI assistants because they don't want their company's proprietary data being sent to Microsoft or Google or whoever. Stick a key on the keyboard that, if accidentally hit, brings up copilot (and maybe sends data to Microsoft), and those keyboards might be banned.

Some companies will probably just deal with it by setting up their PCs so that copilot is disabled and that key does something else. But, other companies will either not be technically savvy enough to do that, or will not want to take a risk of someone accidentally reverting to the default behaviour.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you press the windows key I'm pretty sure it brings up search already. It definitely used to bring up Cortana on Windows 10.

I'm not sure why they would add a new key to the keyboard to achieve a function that already exists.