News Summary

• “This will not only simplify people’s computing experience but also amplify it, making 2024 the year of the AI PC,” Yusuf Mehdi, the executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, said in a company blog post announcing the Copilot key..
• The new key features a Copilot ribbon logo and sits on the lower right side of the keyboard, near the Space bar and Alt button..
• In the company blogpost announcing the Copilot key, Mehdi also teased a “significant shift” coming in 2024 for Microsoft, “where AI will be seamlessly woven into Windows from the system, to the silicon, to the hardware.”.
• Microsoft is adding a “Copilot” key that summons an AI-powered assistant with the click of a button in its biggest update to the Windows keyboard in three decades..
• The new key will ultimately “make it seamless to engage Copilot in your day to day,” Mehdi added..
• The addition marks the first major change to the Windows PC keyboard since Microsoft added the Windows key back in 1994..