Laptop lovers have a lot to be excited about in 2025. If CES is anything to go by, this year will be another excellent one when it comes to performance, design, and innovation in the laptop space. Over the last week, we covered everything from a laptop with a rollable display to what could be the perfect gaming laptop. While form factors, processors, displays, and other components vary across devices, there is one near constant on all the laptops announced. As far as I can tell, every laptop announced at CES 2025 features a dedicated Copilot key.
Microsoft seems determined to find a use for the key next to right-alt on a keyboard. That key used to be the menu key, though Microsoft toyed around with a dedicated Office key starting in 2019. While the Office key only appeared on Microsoft's own keyboards, the Copilot key is nearly ubiquitous on new PCs. The addition of a dedicated Copilot key was called the "most significant change to the Windows keyboard" in 30 years by Microsoft.
