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

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: 2) by tibman on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:45PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:45PM (#197902)

    With or without the windows key between the left control and alt?

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:41PM

    by edIII (791) on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:41PM (#197971)

    You know.... I don't actually object to that key :)

    I find it functional and useful on Windows machines. My Logitech K750 has a Windows key there, and a function key on the between the right ctrl and alt. All of the 'special' keys are accessible off the the F1-F12 with the function key pressed. All of that being said, if Microsoft gets rid of the ESC key........

    "Why don't they just fucking dip our balls in honey, and stake us to an ANT FIELD!!!" - John Malkovich

    In all seriousness though, let's not threaten the ESC key please. If anything needs to go, the Windows key can go first.

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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by TWX on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:07PM

      by TWX (5124) on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:07PM (#197999)

      You never played first-person shooters in the era when the Window and Menu keys first appeared; the games would play under Windows but would get very, very angry when those keys were hit by mistake. It often wasn't possible to return to the game, and even if one could return it usually meant one was killed several times over before one managed to find one's way back in.

      And for those wondering why someone was playing a DOS game in Windows, it was for the network services so one could play against others that weren't in the same LAN segment or through dialup Internet. Not as easy to do those in DOS as it was in Windows 95.

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      • (Score: 2) by TK on Friday June 19 2015, @01:57PM

        by TK (2760) on Friday June 19 2015, @01:57PM (#198224)

        I remember playing DOS games on a Windows 95 desktop. Platformers loved to use Ctrl as jump and alt as fire. Well guess what's between those two bastards?!?!

        Of course, by the time I'd switched back to the game window, I was usually dead. That is, if the game could even manage to get back there without crashing.

        Kids these days with their USB game pads and their alt+tab that doesn't force you to reboot. Luxury! [youtube.com]

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