[wastedyears]

Windows 9 isn’t even out yet, and they’re already talking about Windows 10? I’ll keep 7 forever, thanks.

[kevkrom]

Everyone “borrows” from everyone. It’s not “following” unless you slavishly copy look-and-feel (*cough* Samsung *cough*) as opposed to taking good features and incorporating them into your motif.

[VanDeKoik]

What a retarded headline. The fact that these people still trout out this pathetic discredited trope only reinforces the perception that Apple’s user base are crackpot cultists.

Maybe Apple fans can urge MS to follow Apple’s universal genius in chiding Alabama for not being gay-friendly enough too.

[Mastador1]

Not an Apple or MIcro fan, but please, Apple leads, Microsoft follows? Apple has been the follower of others no less or more, silly fan boy statement.

[556x45]

They’ll find a way to screw it up!

[mikrofon]

Whatever the brand, these manufacturers draw plenty of “multi-touch gestures” and “third-finger swipes” for neglecting basic user features & offering “fixes” that do anything but.

[reg45]

I hope they’re consistant. That makes it easier for users to move between devices and between operating systems.

[Defiant]

I have an HP laptop that I installed Mac on, and now can boot to either. In Windows 7, the touchpad is ok as a mouse, but gestures are awful. For example, when I use 2 fingers to scroll with the trackpad, it is clunky and disjointed. However, when I am using the laptop as a Mac, and with a driver that is generic because Mac did not build this laptop, the touchpad works beautifully, and all the Mac gestures work.

That tells me it is not the hardware, it is the software. Whether that is Microsoft's fault, or the manufacturer's, I don't know.

[erod]

Hahahaha

[2sheds]

[zeugma]

To give you an idea of how similar the Windows 10 gestures are to the ones offered in OS X, a three-finger swipe up on OS X will trigger Mission Control (an overview of all windows), while a three-finger swipe down will trigger Expose (an overview of all open windows of an app). On OS X, minimizing all windows is done through a four-finger pinch. As you can see, Microsoft does things somewhat differently, to better suit the character of Windows 10.

OK well, that's a function that I have never seen any utility for, except maybe to hide what I'm doing from someone walking up behind me. If I want a clean workspace, I just go to another workspace. Oh, that's right, windows dosn't have multiple workspaces. Sorry.