Technology

55748 readers

2700 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

536

Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jordanlund to c/technology

533 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I would imagine this isn't going to go over very well with a lot of companies. I would bet many already ban employees using copilot or other AI assistants because they don't want their company's proprietary data being sent to Microsoft or Google or whoever. Stick a key on the keyboard that, if accidentally hit, brings up copilot (and maybe sends data to Microsoft), and those keyboards might be banned.

Some companies will probably just deal with it by setting up their PCs so that copilot is disabled and that key does something else. But, other companies will either not be technically savvy enough to do that, or will not want to take a risk of someone accidentally reverting to the default behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you press the windows key I'm pretty sure it brings up search already. It definitely used to bring up Cortana on Windows 10.

I'm not sure why they would add a new key to the keyboard to achieve a function that already exists.

[–] arin 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cortana is not Copilot but you can disable Cortana

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cortana is dead, replaced by copilot
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/end-of-support-for-cortana-d025b39f-ee5b-4836-a954-0ab646ee1efa

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Just from a naming things point of view, that's sad. Much as I dislike Microsoft, and was never interested in Halo, it's fun that one of the voice-assistant things was a nod to a video game character. It's sad to have that replaced by something boring.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As an observation, companies are embracing AI to inflict things on their customers, but are avoiding it for their own purposes. Take note.

[–] jordanlund 10 points 6 months ago

I can only speak for my own company, but you're absolutely right, there are severe limits on how we interact with AI and what data can be fed into it.

I also can't imagine any company with their own interest in AI, your Intels, Oracles, Nvidias, Googles, etc. allowing their employees a 1 click access to Microsofts version.

[–] Clipboards 6 points 6 months ago

I was going to say, currently working in K12 & this key would be a nightmare for us. We definitely can't pay Microsoft's minimums - disabling/remapping the key wouldn't be hard, but it's obnoxious it becomes a priority.

[–] rwhitisissle 1 points 6 months ago

I really hope startups are using Copilot and stuff as much as possible because so much of that code is absolute bloatware trash and it'll make Copilot worse with time. Or maybe it won't. Would be funny if it did, though.