Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
HerzogVonWiesel@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoIm pretty sure you could look up key remappers and do that already
Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
HerzogVonWiesel@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoIm pretty sure you could look up key remappers and do that already
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes but you’re missing my point entirely. What I’m saying is that I’m happy that Microsoft is making it official, so that I don’t have to remap anything.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
MS used to sell a keyboard with a custom button to start your web browser.
Now that web browsing is common but that key has been removed from keyboards, do you still remap a hotkey to bring up Firefox?
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m ambivalent about all this, but I think the distinction is that a web browser button would simply open a persistent window, and therefore only really needs to be used once or twice per “session”. Copilot is designed to act more like the Start menu, in that it is opened frequently and disappears after each use.
That being said, and as much as I use ChatGPT myself, it’s hard to see this as anything more than an easy way to further the perception of Microsoft as first-class AI company, thereby justifying its high stock price for a corporation with limited new growth opportunities.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Copilot’s session maintains state. That is it modifies responses to your questions to get more accurate. This means it needs to be left open even more than Google.
Google is almost stateless. The second query you give it doesn’t immediately change based on the first query, so 90’s keyboard button pops up a web browser is more useful than a button to launch copilot. Because you need to keep a single session open until the problem is solved or you lose all that state information.