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

jordanlund@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 502 points – 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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copilot key will eventually be required

Fuck that, and fuck you, Microsoft

We asked Microsoft if a Copilot key would be required on OEM PCs going forward; [...] it expects Copilot keys to be required on Windows 11 keyboards "over time." Microsoft often imposes some additional hardware requirements on major PC makers that sell Windows on their devices [...].

From what I understand, this either means that this will only affect laptops and similar devices, or that they want to force companies that sell windows PCs to sign a contract disallowing them from selling keyboards without a copilot key, with or without a PC. I think (hope?) they mean the former.