Hurrah! Typing accents with a US keyboard has never been easy with Windows. But a custom keyboard layout by Andrew Dunning makes it as easy as it is on a Mac.
In the 1980s, Apple noticed that many European languages only need a few extra characters compared to English, and since has made typing those with a US keyboard a first-class experience in macOS and iOS. This makes it easy to type words or names containing accents – especially useful in a bilingual country such as Canada! Microsoft meanwhile requires you to type in either one language or the other at a time, or use workarounds like the on-screen character picker or unicodepoints (all of these are slow).
Fortunately, Microsoft publishes a custom keyboard layout editor for Windows. And furthermore, someone has used that editor to replicate the typing experience from macOS. Using the installer above, you can add a “United States-Macintosh” input language to Windows. With that activated, you can use the right Alt key to input various accents and letters used in French, German, Spanish, and other Latin script languages. Et voilà, bon taper!