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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by jordanlund to c/technology
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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they did it before with the windows/super button. Before that you just had ctrl and alt there.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use mainly keyboard-controlled WM configurations, so a Super key or a Meta key is useful for me, to separate it from Alt and Ctrl.

Which reminds us of the fact that PC keyboards didn't have those or a Windows key obviously, but Sun keyboards, from googling, did have a Super key.

So it's not them.

(And it's not bad in my opinion)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I always assumed the windows key was a late attempt at copying the “Apple” keys on Macs. then Macs stopped using that, and switched to the clover (called command), then to actual Command text.