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Windows 10 Preview Features: More Trackpad Gestures Come Out In Build 9865

Virginia D'Cruz October 29, 2014 11:25 PM EST

Windows 10 is due for unveiling sometime in the middle of next year, but Microsoft has already released a technical preview for testers last Oct. 1. The most recent technical preview release, called Build 9865, focused on trackpad gestures.

This was highlighted in the TechEd Europe conference that took place last Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Barcelona, Spain. In the conference Joe Belfiore demonstrated how the build would allow testers to snap applications and resize them so that they take up half the monitor's screen size. Build 9860 already allows testers to move apps from one monitor to another.

PC World notes that the new trackpad gestures such as app switching will be a welcome addition to the pinch, zoom, pan and scroll that are already available in Windows 8 and 8.1. These trackpad gestures will invariably bridge traditional mouse and keyboard-based computing and touch screen gestures.

Among the significant trackpad changes in Windows 10 is the ability to use three fingers to swipe downwards which will cause the desktop to come up. Sweeping upwards with three fingers will bring up all windows that are currently open. The same three-finger motion can also be used to bring up the Windows 10 new task view. Also Windows 10 will see the Alt-tab key combination, currently used to switch between apps, being replaced with a three-finger gesture on the trackpad to choose apps.

Belfiore stated that "Microsoft is making trackpad changes to Windows 10 to create a more unified experience." He also added that in Windows 10 the three-finger gestures will make users more efficient.

ZDNET quotes Belfiore as stating that users will also be able to upgrade directly to Windows 10 from Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later. However, he did not mention whether users on Windows 7,8 and 8.1 will get a free upgrade to Windows 10.

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