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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @07:41AM
Since the first thing a vi coder does is remap the esc key nearer to the home keys, putting esc on ctrl and putting ctrl on caps lock and then moving caps lock on the esc key. Loosing the esc key is no big loss, now if they could relabel the other keys to match my individual choice that would be nice. Caps lock is the key we need to loose.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:03AM
So they don't really remove it, they just loose it, so you have a decent chance that it didn't already fall off when your keyboard arrives?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:49PM
Mine is square, is seated in a square hole, and stubbornly resists rotation to the left. Can't loose it at all. How do we loose it?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:26PM
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=angry%20german%20kid&sm=1
That is how you remove the ESC key!
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday June 18 2015, @02:09PM
I've been using vi/vim for 30 years and not only have I ever remapped my keyboard like this, I've never heard of anyone doing it.
My ducks are not in a row. I don't know where some of them are, and I'm pretty sure one of them is a turkey.