A 'Copilot' key is coming to your PC's keyboard

Microsoft and its PC partners plan to add a "Copilot" key to your PC keyboards, making it easy and intuitive to launch Microsoft's Copilot AI -- and avoid using an AI solution from a competitor. PC makers appear to be prepping to replace one of the existing buttons in the no-man's land grouping of keys to the right of the PC spacebar into a key that will launch Copilot on command. "Over the coming days leading up to and at CES, you will start to see the Copilot key on many of the new Windows 11 PCs from our ecosystem partners, with availability beginning in late February through spring, including on upcoming Surface devices," Yusuf Mehdi, who now oversees the Windows and Surface businesses after the departure of Panos Panay, wrote in a blog post. Copilot is available in Windows, of course, and it's now officially available on iOS and Android as well. Early looks at the new PCs indicate that the new key could potentially replace the "menu" key on some Windows PCs like Microsoft Surface devices, which are rarely used.