Article 6EY8W Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn

Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn

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Thom Holwerda
from OSnews on (#6EY8W)

If you're running Windows try holding down CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + L. Then watch in bemusement as LinkedIn opens in your default browser. Windows watcher Paul Thurrott posted this bizarre keyboard shortcut on X (Twitter), noting that it's an operating system hotkey.

So why does Windows even have this? It's all part of the Office key that Microsoft introduced on some of its own keyboards a few years ago. The Office key replaced the usual right-hand Windows key, offering up the ability to hold the key in combination with another one to quickly open Office apps.

Absolutely bizarre.

The funniest outcome of this is a joke feature request by KDE developers in the KDE bugzilla, demanding a shortcut key combination be added to KDE to open LinkedIn to achieve feature parity" with Windows, which sparked a flurry of proposed fixes" and additional feature requests - with this one definitely being my favourite.

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