El Reg reports on upcoming keyboard ideas from Toshiba:
Toshiba USA has revealed that it will add a key dedicated to summoning Cortana, Windows 10's digital assistant.
Toshiba's Jeff Barney, the company's veep and GM for all things PC in North America, says the new button will appear on every keyboard the company sells.
PCWorld reports that "the key will sit in the upper left area, near the function keys".
A quick glance at the many keyboards in Vulture Souths eyrie suggests that this means the ESC key is in peril.
(Score: 5, Funny) by VortexCortex on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:15AM
When it comes to Cortana, there will be no Escape.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:41AM
And no Return [staticworld.net] either.
(this is serious, guys, the linked image is the first from TFA in PC World!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Wierd0n3 on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:02AM
if you look at the shift key, there is a decal ring around the text. on the "Cortana" return key, there is not. someone is having fun in Photoshop.
personally, I'm of the opinion that if it doesn't end up like a media key, they are going to get some backlash.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:01AM
If they want to get rid of a key (or rather, replace it with a more 'OS dependent' key), do what Google did with the ChromeBooks and get rid of that annoying CAPS LOCK key. On machines I work on that I can't disable or remap it in the OS, I'm not above physically removing it if required.
The problem with CAPS LOCK is that it's in completely the wrong place ... with the right place being a switch on the back of the machine somewhere.
(Score: 5, Funny) by WizardFusion on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:23AM
WAIT, THERE IS A CAPS LOCK KEY.
GREAT, NOW I CAN STOP HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY ALL THE TIME.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:15PM
WOW, THIS IS LIKE A SHORTCUT FOR COOL!
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 18 2015, @07:29PM
I hate you all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @02:58PM
What? Take away a free key I can configure however I want? What's next? Eliminating the Scroll Lock key?