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Oh "great", more crap between Ctrl and Alt.
[Grumpy grandpa] In my times, the space row only had five keys! And we did more than those youngsters do with eight, now nine keys!
In my time it was also nine. Back to the roots. ;->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
From the picture, it's just the context menu key with a new key cap.
That's still a new key for some people. My laptop doesn't have a context key, for example.
Aaaaah. I really, really wanted to complain about the excessive amount of keys.
(My comment above is partially a joke - don't take it too seriously. Even if a new key was added it would be a bit more clutter, but not that big of a deal.)