Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
arstechnica.com

Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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I remember those keyboard layout cutouts (were they called keyboard templates?) you got which you put on the keyboard with extra explanations of what each function key did in WordPerfect or Lotus or whatever.

I'm old.

Yeah I remember them too. Sometimes games would come with them even, to help with all the keyboard shortcuts. :)

I found out recently that you can buy replacement keycap sets that have many of the Vim functions printed on them, and I thought that was pretty exciting. I am also old, lol.

After 25 years of using vim I have replaced a lot of otherwise useful reflexes and brain capacity with vim keybindings (using a swedish variant of Dvorak none the less). I am way too old for needing a cheat sheet stuck on the keyboard, and it would even then be wrong not using QWERTY.