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Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the Knowledge...so-much...so-fast.-It's-glorious! dept.

"gewg_" writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 18 2015, @09:55AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday June 18 2015, @09:55AM (#197740)

    I use Android's voice control for a few actions like setting a quick alarm to wake me up from a nap, and a few other things. On occasion I've used it recently to do a quick response using my smart watch when I don't feel like pulling my phone out. In general, I find that when doing something by voice is much faster than doing it directly you need to work on your direct interface, although there are probably some exceptions.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:58PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:58PM (#197804) Homepage
    Never underestimate how contrived and convoluted GUIs can be for performing the simplest of actions. That voice control has become a superior interface surprises me little. Of course, I'm a luddite who does most things using a CLI because I find it faster, and more reliable. (And that even includes things on my phone, I always have an xterm open.)
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    • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:31PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:31PM (#197896)

      A command line does not even remotely make you a Luddite. It's by far the fasted way of doing many (not all) operations. Just the ability to use regular expression gives a huge boost, and when you throw command history, variables, etc in, it can't be beat.