Microsoftthe well-known tech giant behind Windows, Bing and the office suite marketed under the company name has officially introduced new key for Copilot, your virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence. The company called it “the first major keyboard change on Windows PCs in nearly three decades.”

Microsoft is betting a lot on artificial intelligence, and although the most ambitious goals seem to have been set in the future Windows 12, it will be Windows 11 that kicks off the key dedicated to Copilot. The Redmond giant hopes that this news will mark “the beginning of a significant shift towards a future where computing will be more personal and intelligent, a process in which artificial intelligence (AI) will be seamlessly integrated into Windows from the operating system to the hardware passing through silicon.”

But Microsoft is not alone in promoting artificial intelligence in the home environment Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm have recently worked to improve Neural Processing Units (NPUs) which they implement in the latest generations of their processors. Given the typical dynamics within PCs, it’s not surprising that the Windows boss says he’s working with processor manufacturers to implement “a new system architecture to drive new AI applications in Windows that will combine GPUs, CPUs, NPUs and the cloud.”

The goal of the future framework to be built around artificial intelligence is simplify and enhance the user experience with the computer, from a Windows perspective of course. Beyond productivity and PC configuration issues, it opens the door for users to turn their ideas into songs, “make beautiful pictures” and perfect designs.



At Microsoft, they believe that 2024 will be the year of consolidation of artificial intelligence in home computersbut it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence will end up being enough of an incentive to boost PC sales, which are apparently recovering from the bursting of the confinement bubble created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Redmond giant recalled that thirty years ago it introduced the Windows key, whose general name is Super or start after its adoption by Unix-type operating systems (including Linux). It cannot be denied that this key served to speed up the use of the operating system in its time, so now the company intends to repeat this milestone with a novelty dedicated to Copilot.

With CES just around the corner, Microsoft will take the opportunity to showcase the capabilities of the dedicated Copilot dongle at the event, which they will be implemented “on many new Windows 11 PCs in the ecosystem partners from Microsoft, which will be available from the end of February until spring. Among these devices are also the upcoming Surface devices.”

We’ll see how this strong commitment to AI proves to be the factor that gives Windows value over its competitors for Microsoft. And not only that, because it is being sung from afar that this is an attempt to encourage computer renewals, which have slowed down over the years, partly because many have stopped using their computer for their mobile phone and others because the device was purchased long ago was so powerful that it is still useful today even though it is not officially compatible with Windows 11.