These are the multitouch gestures that Windows 10 will release on our trackpads

Historically, one of the biggest flaws of Windows laptops has been the poor performance of their trackpads For whatever reason, most PCs haven't been able to keep up with their rivals when it comes to multi-touch gestures.

Luckily, that is about to change very soon, since the arrival of Windows 10 promises a real revolution in our trackpads by allowing to use many more gestures than 3 and up 4 fingers to perform frequent actions on the system.Several of these gestures were already announced late last year, but now, thanks to a presentation at WinHEC, we finally have a complete list of them.

We can emulate a right click by tapping with 2 fingers at the same time. With 3 fingers we can invoke Cortana, and with 4 the Action Center will open, or notification center.

It will be possible to invoke the multi-desktop view (or Task View) by sliding 3 fingers up, and once there, we can move between applications by sliding 1 finger in any direction.

You can also swipe from one application to the next by sliding 3 fingers to the right or to the left And if when doing that we hold the 3 fingers pressed, the ALT + TAB window changer will be displayed, from where we can choose an application by sliding the 3 fingers in any direction.

Finally, we can swipe 3 fingers down to minimize all windows at the same time and thus clear the desktop. And if we regret it, we will only have to slide the 3 fingers up to return the windows to their original position.

It is likely that along with Windows 10 more laptops with support for advanced gestures will come to market

The new advanced gestures will be available only on laptops with Precision Touchpad technology, which was released in late 2013 alongside Windows 8.1, and is available today on several mid-range and high-end laptops.

Microsoft is trying to convince more manufacturers to adopt these types of trackpads (in fact, that was the topic of their presentation at WinHEC), so it is likely that with the launch of Windows 10 we will see many more laptops with support for this technology.

Via | The Verge > Channel 9