Originally published at: Microsoft adds "Copilot" key to keyboard layout - Boing Boing
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Copy? Now on a single key?
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If this copilot button is just CTRL-C will I be able to use it to kill a process when using command line?
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Pretty sure it’s WIN-C, not CTRL-C…but that hotkey apparently opens MS Teams Chat on my PC, so…
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Empowering people to participate in the AI transformation sounds scary. Who is being transformed? And why?
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the company told us that the key isn’t mandatory now, but that it expects Copilot keys to be required on Windows 11 keyboards “over time.”
I think I’ll keep my Model M keyboard, and drop Windows, thanks.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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I’ll change my settings so that if anyone uses the copilot button it will make the PC switch the keyboard detected to Dvorak. Why not.
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Is that actually a new physical key or are they repurposing one of the existing ones that are sitting to the right of the space bar and below the right shift key?
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So what you’re saying is that I should purchase a fancy keyboard now instead of later?
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Or SIGINT for us UNIX types
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Back when MS introduced the Windows and context menu keys, they were the 800 pound gorilla of the computing industry and so could do whatever they wanted. They can’t get away with this kind of shit any more, right?
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Control-C has long been a shortcut keyboard command for “Copy,” along with Control-V for “Paste.” Not sure why yours is set up differently if you’re using Windows, but I’ve used these shortcuts almost daily for decades.
As for the change itself…
We believe it will empower people to participate in the AI transformation more easily.
Don’t do me any favors. In fact, don’t TOUCH my keyboard layout. If I want your fucking AI crap, I’ll seek it out, I don’t need you to modify my keyboard to try and force it on us. I’ll certainly NEVER buy a system where I have to use such a keyboard, and if anyone makes me for work or something, I’ll do what NukeML suggest:
Only when I’m done, all your systems are going to open Pornhub.
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So it ‘activates’ the clippy of the year ‘A.I.’ assistant…? if one presses it again (perhaps frantically) does it deactivate it?
As an feckless aside, of one who has had to help folks deal with computers over the phone or chat for decades, how would one describe the icon on the key? Have become weary over the years trying to describe things like “ok now press the one which looks like …oh, a four leaf clover”. So now describe this one in simple terms:
(“partially unrolled toilet paper roll…?”)
(“hey, just press “Copilot-Win-Alt-Ctrl-Shift-Q” to unleash untold super powers!”)
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No, I know, I’m a heavy shortcut user. I meant that win-c opens teams chat
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there’s currently already a shortcut for copilot. the op says ctrl-c but on windows 11 it’s actually win-c . ctrl-c isn’t changing
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An unspooling roll of toilet paper
Oh, duh, my apologies, I misread what you posted.
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All good, I was unclear
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It’s Win+C, or Meta+C if you’re on Linux, or ⌘+C on macOS.
Now the real question is, will it produce that chord or will it be a new key code?
I’m leaning toward new key if it opens search in non-Copilot regions. That is currently Win+S on my Win10 work laptop. Win+C opens Cortana, which is what Copilot replaced. On an ARM64 Win11 VM, Win+S and Win+C (Well, ⌘+S and ⌘+C, but it’s mapped) do absolutely nothing.
