Clicking the Task View button on the taskbar or swiping from the left side of the screen displays all open windows and allows users to switch between them, or switch between multiple workspaces.

It was first previewed on September 30, 2014, at a Windows 10 press event in downtown San Francisco.

[1] A redesigned Task View with support for giving different wallpapers on each desktop has been introduced in Windows 11.

Vista's Desktop Window Manager exposes a public API that allows any application to access the same thumbnail representations that Flip3D uses, and so there are a number of third party add-ons that are able to provide this functionality in Vista.

Additionally, several freeware Windows applications exist to emulate the functionality.