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

ceejayoz wrote: post #4

thyrox wrote: post #3

Thanks to perplexity it looks like they are adding a new key to the PC keyboard to open copilot. That's the summary I got.

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

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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 xnzakg » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 12:32 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #4

thyrox wrote: post #3

Thanks to perplexity it looks like they are adding a new key to the PC keyboard to open copilot. That's the summary I got.

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

Hope that's what is happening and that they aren't replacing the right control key.

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

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Post by Hamuko » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 12:35 PM UTC

They should just have it say "Copilot" instead of the weird logo they have for Copilot. That way it'd be future-proof for all of the future (AI) products also called Copilot that Microsoft will launch.

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Post by chrismorgan » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 12:37 PM UTC

xnzakg wrote: post #5

Neat! Hopefully this means we get an extra remappable key on Linux!

I’m cynical: my guess is it’ll just emit Super+C. My laptop has its row of function keys and their alternative functions are mostly separate keys for controlling the device, but three feel more application-level: ASUS’s “Aura” button is XF86Launch3 (yay!), but the screenshot and presentation mode changing ones are just Super+Shift+S and Super+P, so you can’t do anything novel with them. I’m guessing Copilot will use Super+C, as I presume Cortana’s successor.