Okay, two things: The function keys are gone as well, but nobody cares about that. Caps lock is , and rightfully so. It's easily the most reviled key in modern computing, a waste of space in a tragically convenient location. It's the reason that, when someone on this Website writes something too nice about Apple or too mean about Microsoft, the comments section becomes a shouting match.

With all due respect to every other keyboard in existence, it's time for a little peace and quiet.

Back to the Chrome OS notebook, . Google didn't simply leave an empty space where the caps lock would be. Instead, there's a search button -- pretty logical given the importance of search to Google's livelihood, and useful to boo

But Google must know that banishing caps lock brings side benefits. "We expect this will improve the quality of comments across the web," an unnamed employee .