[pzmarzly]

MS has previously been experimenting with replacing Right Windows and Context keys (with Office and Emoji keys): https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20909475/microsoft-offic...

Copilot key doesn't sound all that useful, but still will be much better than Office key

[fouronnes3]

After having gone very far down the rabbit hole of custom keyboards and custom layouts, it's insane how slow innovation is around the "standard" keyboard. I get that backwards compatibility is of utmost importance, but surely we can do better than that.

[Hamuko]

The Office key is apparently just CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN, as Office Key + W is advertised to open Word and Office Key + L is advertised to open LinkedIn, but you can perform both of those actions in plain Windows by just using CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + W and CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + L respectively.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23874798/microsoft-window...

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

I'm well aware since I wanted to bind tgose shortcuts and of course windows has crap there too

[Findecanor]

There's a hack for it: <https://github.com/acook/OfficeKeyFix>

The Office key shortcuts get bound by Explorer when it starts. If you bind the keys when Explorer does not run, you own them and can then free them after Explorer has started.