{"id":323084,"date":"2019-10-11T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=323084"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:11:18","slug":"the-new-keys-on-microsofts-keyboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/323084-the-new-keys-on-microsofts-keyboards.html","title":{"rendered":"The new keys on Microsoft&#8217;s keyboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/microsoft-bluetooth-keyboard\/919v6qb80zg3?ranMID=24542&amp;ranEAID=nOD\/rLJHOac&amp;ranSiteID=nOD_rLJHOac-EmQUX_G63RNe4nkQiGTBfw&amp;epi=nOD_rLJHOac-EmQUX_G63RNe4nkQiGTBfw&amp;irgwc=1&amp;OCID=AID2000142_aff_7593_1243925&amp;tduid=(ir__tp1kg6a3i0kfrhg1xka03fe3c22xgho3vdodkq6g00)(7593)(1243925)(nOD_rLJHOac-EmQUX_G63RNe4nkQiGTBfw)()&amp;irclickid=_tp1kg6a3i0kfrhg1xka03fe3c22xgho3vdodkq6g00&amp;activetab=pivot:overviewtab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>new keyboards<\/strong><\/a> which contain two new keys.<\/p>\n<p>The new keys are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office 365 key<\/li>\n<li>Emoji key<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These dedicated keys allows users to access Microsoft Office or the Windows 10 emoji picker with a single press.<\/p>\n<p>The keys are available in a new Bluetooth Keyboard and a new Ergonomic Keyboard &#8211; priced at $49.99 and $59.99 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/10\/11\/20909475\/microsoft-office-key-emoji-key-keyboards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> stated that the keyboards were launched at a Microsoft Surface event held last week, but the company did not place much focus on them.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the Office key will replace the right-hand Windows key, and can also be used with various letters to directly open apps in Office.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Office key + W opens Word and Office key + X open Excel, instead of the Office suite.<\/p>\n<p>The emoji key will open the emoji picker in Windows 10, and cannot be linked to a specific emoji.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323092\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keys.jpg\" alt=\"Keys\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keys.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keys-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keys-595x400.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keyboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-323088 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keyboard-640x321.jpg\" alt=\"Keyboard\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keyboard-640x321.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keyboard-600x301.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keyboard-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keyboard-1200x602.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Keyboard.jpg 1594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/322986-google-pixelbook-go-laptop-leaked-photos.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Pixelbook Go laptop leaked \u2013 Photos<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched new keyboards which contain two new keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":323086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29044,51871,123,24138],"class_list":["post-323084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-emoji","tag-keyboards","tag-microsoft","tag-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323094,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323084\/revisions\/323094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}