The "Menu" key on the PC can have the hours counted: Microsoft is studying changing it for another one intended for use with Office

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Those of us who use Windows have next to us a keyboard with classic symbols. The Print Screen key or the Menu key are clear examples A way to access a specific function of our operating system from the keyboard without complications. But time passes and is relentless with everyone and everything."

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This is what could be said if Microsoft finally decides to end a key such as the Menu key. This access that has been with us since time immemorial and that could lead to a new design and a new function… or at least that is what they are studying in Microsoft."

Goodbye Menu Key

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The function of the Menu key, made up of a small icon in the form of an image that resembles a text or menu, is to start a context menu with the keyboard instead of with the right mouse button. In fact it is a key present in almost all keyboards on the right side of it, between the cursor key and the right control key. Only some compact keyboard laptops do without it."

And in the interest of improving productivity with desktop and laptop computers, Microsoft is planning to replace it. A piece of news echoed by the user WalkingCat on Twitter, which reports that they are conducting a survey to replace a rarely used key. A questionnaire that you can access from this link if you use a Microsoft professional or educational account.

This would be replaced by a new Office key that would confirm the interest on the part of the American company in promoting the use of the office suite. They confirm this in the survey that has come to light and in which they ask if we have tried a keyboard with the Office key in Windows 10 May 2019 Update or if we have used the combination to access Office functions (Office key + O, T, W, X, P, D, N, Y, and L).

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The objective could be to replace a rarely used key such as the Menu key>in this sense Office and its applications are the best candidate for Microsoft Perhaps at another time we could have bet on Cortana but that option today... almost pales in front of the options offered by the competition."

The new access would arrive on keyboards created by Microsoft but also on those incorporated by third-party manufacturers, either on stand-alone keyboards or on those integrated into portable equipment.

Source | WalkingCat on Twitter