Does Apple's Magic Trackpad Function When Using Windows 7 or 8 Via Boot Camp or Virtulization Software work?

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Does the Magic Trackpad (and I guess the Magic Mouse) “work its magic”, function, gesture... when using Windows 7 or 8 either in Boot Camp or in VmWare Fusion /Parallels etc, or is Gesture Control confined to the Mac Operating System, as Gesture Control is not a part of Windows but is inherent to Mac OS X 10.6 > Snow Leopard, Lion & Mountain Lion ?

Simon

Posted 2012-11-26T18:31:04.183

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It will function if you provide the drivers to it. – Ramhound – 2012-11-26T18:47:09.080

@Ramhound - Is this something you have done, or know in theory ? – Simon – 2012-11-26T18:55:11.427

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"Magic" and "Gestures" are too subjective to comment on. However, gestures such as two-finger-scroll, tap-to-click, bottom-right-click do work. I have tried this with Windows 8 on MacBook Air. You have an option to select the settings you want in the Boot Camp Control Panel.

There may be other 3rd party drivers such as Synaptics Gesture Suite that let you configure other gestures.

agirish

Posted 2012-11-26T18:31:04.183

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Interesting. Thx for that. I have come across this article if it can be translated into English maybe very useful http://ariel4ever.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/mengaktifkan-apple-multi-trackpad-pada-windows-8/

– Simon – 2012-11-26T18:45:25.540

Use Google Chrome - you will then be prompted to use Google Translate the page to English. – agirish – 2012-11-26T19:29:09.397

OK Thx i'll try it out ! – Simon – 2012-11-26T20:00:55.100