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A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by LegitShady »

jacquesm wrote: post #37

Microsoft is just aiming to revive their monopoly but this time through AI. Beware. You think Google is bad? It is. But wait until MS can get their hooks into you with AI products that know just about everything about you and that tattle your every action back to the MotherShip in order to make it that much more sticky.

but its not just MSFT doing this. It's literally everyone. Google had such a strong position for so long, and LLMs so suddenly breached that position, that everyone is racing towards the LLM future where they have as much data as they can get their hands on. Google, apple, microsoft, etc.

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by apwell23 »

jacquesm wrote: post #37

Microsoft is just aiming to revive their monopoly but this time through AI. Beware. You think Google is bad? It is. But wait until MS can get their hooks into you with AI products that know just about everything about you and that tattle your every action back to the MotherShip in order to make it that much more sticky.

> But wait until MS can get their hooks into you with AI products

Is this already priced into their stock price ?

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by stabbles »

NamTaf wrote: post #21

This feels exactly like back in the early 2000s when I used to physically rip the windows key off my keyboard because I’d accidentally hit it when playing a game and it’d mess everything up.

Hitting that key in-game will increase the difficulty as the computer can leverage more AI

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by WirelessGigabit »

rzzzt wrote: post #29
Semaphor wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So that’s what that does. I have to press the FN key as modifier, and it does indeed open the menu. Never felt the need to press it before ;)

Shift-F10 is an alternative shortcut for the context menu as well.

It's not the same. Because Shift-F10 includes shift you get the extended context menu:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110809-00/?p=99...

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by ceejayoz »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #18
ceejayoz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're replacing the right Windows key with a Copilot key.

It appears like they're replacing the right control key, not the windows/menu key.

Hmm, I was looking at the extended keyboard layouts previously had doubled Windows keys; that's a pretty clear spot to put it there. Looks like a lot of laptops don't have the doubled-Windows keys?

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by maximus-decimus »

naikrovek wrote: post #30
ceejayoz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're replacing the right Windows key with a Copilot key.

that sucks. right-win + L quickly locks the computer. going to have to figure out an autohotkey solution for this.

Doesn't do the exact same thing as left-win + L?
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