Why do many keyboards have a windows button, what could be the reason?

Question

linux

Ivan :

90%+ of keyboards have a windows button with the appropriate logo.

What could be the reason?
Maybe open technologies are used in the production of these same keyboards? Maybe Microsoft makes some kind of deductions to the manufacturers of these same keyboards?
What's the matter here?
In such cases, which keyboard is considered minimalistically the most functional?

Answer 1

You have a "thorium conspiracy and only I will save this world" brain. Windows is supplied with Windows keyboards, poppy poppies with poppies, Linux with Tux. Take it easy. Everything has already been decided for you and inventing a new standard, turning the world upside down and earning a billion on things "which are so obvious, but due to the fact that 90% of people are rednecks, no one has thought of it yet" will not work for you.

Answer 2

There is a whole Wikipedia article about it.

Answer 3

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard

Additional MS Windows key (×2) and Menu key added (one MS Windows key to the right of the left control key, the other and the Menu key to the left of the right control key). Introduced for use with the MS Windows 95 operating system. Most modern PCs, whether supplied with MS Windows or not, are now delivered with this layout. Like the Enhanced layout, the MS Windows keyboard layout differs from region to region:

Answer 4

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/tux-super-k...
Order yourself Tux and stick it on, don't suffer.
Well, yes, there are keyboards with Tux immediately upon purchase.