› For any apps installed on your PC that might utilize this keyboard shortcut, Windows will register whichever app is launched first on your PC and running in the background as the app that is invoked when using Alt+Space.
What a mess, thanks God I ditched windows for good 3 years ago.
I can't believe people would keep up with this, that's such a lazy and easy way to push copilot in the throat of windows user instead of just making it useful so that people would want to click on the icon tray.
Happily using Windows 11 LTSC IoT edition without copilot and any bloat.
Don't think remapping a keyboard shortcut would be that hard? Also if you're using alt + space for a third party spotlight alternative, wouldn't it automatically override the copilot shortcut?
Greedy, methinks. Soon you won't even be able to call Windows an operating system anymore, just a captive portal page for Microsoft to force products into your face.
Consistent UI/UX? Corrupted with lowest common denominator touchscreen crap. Settings for the owners of the computer? Being removed. Not having the thing reboot while you're using it? Too bad.
Screwing over keyboard navigation is just another facet of the same downhill slide.
Worse than that, it's one of the go-to get-out-of-jail sequences for Windows windows that are misbehaving. Got a window that you can get focus to but it's not on screen properly? Alt+Space, X to the rescue!
Funny, the sequence I learned somehow is Alt-Space, down arrow, Enter (this selects Move), tap any arrow key. Now the window follows your cursor until you click. I'll try X next time.
Even worse, they have their own g'damned key on the keyboard, use that! Win+Space currently swaps keyboard locale, but we already had a perfectly good shortcut for that, Alt+Shift.
So would be much better to repurpose Win+Space for Copilot.
> Even worse, they have their own g'damned key on the keyboard, use that!
On my Win10 box, Windows+C is already linked to Cortana, a similar "stop pushing your broken and untrustworthy assistant in my face" thing. I suspect they'll merge the two.
I love using alt-space for popping up PowerToys Run as a quick and dirty calculator. I guess I can use Copilot as a hallucinating calculator, but it sure seems like overkill...
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What a mess, thanks God I ditched windows for good 3 years ago.
I can't believe people would keep up with this, that's such a lazy and easy way to push copilot in the throat of windows user instead of just making it useful so that people would want to click on the icon tray.
The shortcut burned into my muscle memory for closing, minimizing, moving, resizing windows with the keyboard?
Are they mad?
Greedy, methinks. Soon you won't even be able to call Windows an operating system anymore, just a captive portal page for Microsoft to force products into your face.
Consistent UI/UX? Corrupted with lowest common denominator touchscreen crap. Settings for the owners of the computer? Being removed. Not having the thing reboot while you're using it? Too bad.
Screwing over keyboard navigation is just another facet of the same downhill slide.
They'd better not break this.
I suppose it’s excusable to an extent. After all, the mouse exists, and only the people who actually do work figure out keyboard shortcuts.
So would be much better to repurpose Win+Space for Copilot.
On my Win10 box, Windows+C is already linked to Cortana, a similar "stop pushing your broken and untrustworthy assistant in my face" thing. I suspect they'll merge the two.
"It must be because not everyone has a keyboard with a Copilot key"
"You're right, make it so 'e' launches Copilot!"
The damned shame is I kinda like the idea of copilot... if it were just implemented in a less gimmicky and shoveling way.
I use it to switch from UK layout to US (long story).
Shouldn't haven't modified anything for it, do my utmost best to just use WSL for work.