Windows 10 supports three-finger trackpad gestures

Microsoft has demonstrated which three-finger gestures on trackpads can be used to execute Windows 10 commands. With the new gestures, the Task View functionality can be called up, among other things.

By swiping down with three fingers on a trackpad, Windows 10 minimizes all windows and swiping up maximizes the windows again. In addition, the new Task View functionality of Windows 10 can be called up by swiping up with three fingers. Task View allows users to switch between open apps and switch between virtual desktops.

Finally, swiping left and right with three fingers allows the user to switch open apps. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, demonstrated the new gestures at TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona. According to him, the supported touchpad commands in the past sometimes depended on the manufacturer of the laptop, for example. “With Windows 10, we’re adding support for power users on touchpads, and the multiple-finger gestures that power users all learn can make you very efficient.”

According to NeoWin, Belfiore also showed that Windows 10 can give windows a permanent place at the edge of the screen when using more than one monitor. To do this, the user has to drag the window to the edge between two screens, whereby the so-called Snap functionality automatically shows how the window is placed on that side.