Microsoft changes keyboard to add AI key

Microsoft has announced the most significant change to its keyboard layout in 3 decades. New Windows 11 PC’s will have a new AI key, which will allow direct access to Copilot, Microsoft’s AI tool.

Copilot is powered by OpenAI, of whom Microsoft is a major investor. It aims to help uses with searching, creating images and writing emails.

In its blog, Microsoft suggests it is as transformative a moment as adding the Windows key nearly 30 years ago and you can read more at https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/01/04/introducing-a-new-copilot-key-to-kick-off-the-year-of-ai-powered-windows-pcs/.