Your next Windows PC will have something new like we haven’t seen in thirty years (yes, it will be linked to AI)

“Today begins the era of PC AI“: Like this Microsoft announces the first change to keyboard of Windows computers for approximately 30 years. Exactly, it’s such a moment importantand demonstrates how much the house of Redmond points on its new AI assistant Copilot: a key dedicated.

For any further information regarding this function, we refer you to our in-depth analysis in which we not only explain it to you what it isbut also how activate it in Italy (where it is not yet available) e how to use it.

But let’s get back to the key. As we anticipated, this is the first change to the keyboard of Microsoft’s operating system after the introduction of Windows keyand not surprisingly, given that if 2023 was the year of AI, 2024 for Microsoft wants to be the year in which the technology will actually be available to all users.

According to Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and chief consumer marketing at Microsoft, in fact, this represents a “transformative moment” And “your entry point into the world of AI on the PC“.

The news isn’t that surprising: Microsoft has invested heavily in Copilot, replacing Bing and implementing the feature across all its services, from apps to Microsoft 365to get to Edge (which has been appropriately termed “AI browser“) and, of course, also Windows. So much so that he decided to bring it to Windows 10 too, revising his decision to no longer bring new features to the “old” operating system.

And with this news we will see a decisive change of pace. But where will we find the new button? As you see in the image below, the button will be on the right of the space barbetween the right Alt key and the arrows (the position could change depending on the PC manufacturer), where the Office key is now located on Microsoft keyboards (which was introduced with the Windows key and in fact will be replaced).

By pressing it, you will call back the AI ​​assistantopening a panel on the right with a text field where you can write questions, turn ideas into songs, create images and even change the settings within Windows.

Apparently the button won’t allow it combinations of keys like the Windows key, while in countries where Copilot is not available, as in Italy, by pressing it you will simply recall the Windows search.

At the moment Microsoft has only teased that we will start to see the new up button “many” of Windows PCs that will be presented at CES, without specifying i producers who will implement it, while it will certainly be on the next ones Surface Pro 10 And Surface Laptop 6 which will be launched in the spring.

But this is just the beginning: a Windows update will arrive soon which should implement new related features to AI, and Microsoft’s promise is to create “an operating system that offers fewer and fewer distinctions between local and cloud computing“. With all due respect to lovers of privacy.