Thanks, shin_lao! I got a tweet about this too. Holy cow, that was not intuitive. I tried swiping from the top, but the context menu at the bottom appeared. Apparently, not a long-enough swipe from the top.
So I discovered the "sort of task list" you get by swiping rightward from the left and then back to the left. I tried then dragging the thumbnails up, down, left, right. Nothing.
I figured eventually I'd take the time to search for a how-to, but what I was doing was just a stream-of-consciousness.
Huh. I saw no such tutorial on either my desktop or the Surface. The Surface just gave me a "swipe up to get started" animation and that was that. I was at the Start menu.
So I guess I avoided it by not seeing it at all.
Once you know it--the close swipe--it seems obvious enough. But just randomly swiping this way and that, I didn't stumble upon the long-swipe-from-top, which is not to be confused with the short-swipe-from-top which opens the context menu at the bottom of the screen.
So I discovered the "sort of task list" you get by swiping rightward from the left and then back to the left. I tried then dragging the thumbnails up, down, left, right. Nothing.
I figured eventually I'd take the time to search for a how-to, but what I was doing was just a stream-of-consciousness.