Win10 draws on Apple touchpad gestures, window stickers

Microsoft introduced touchpad gestures in Windows 8, and now Microsoft plans to further improve their touchpad gestures in Windows 10. At today's European TechEd conference, Microsoft Joe Belfiore demonstrated the new touchpad capabilities that will soon be available for testing on Windows 10.

The new gesture consists of three finger swipes down, minimizing all windows, sliding three fingers up and redisplaying all the windows. Use the three-finger swipe gesture to activate the Windows 10 new task view feature. Not only does the task view look like the OS X's task control center, but the three-finger swipe is the same gesture.

Microsoft also borrowed a three-finger swipe left and right to activate the application to switch between, and on Apple is a full-screen Mac application to move between. Microsoft and Apple have borrowed desktop features from each other for years. Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs pointed out with conviction that Apple "stealed" great ideas and made their own things, as Picasso said: good artists copy, great artists steal.