Microsoft may or may not have additional gestural plans for the Wedge Touch mouse in the future, but right now it's a pretty basic affair. That basic touch control is all you'll get in the Wedge Touch: no added multifinger gesture language as for the larger Microsoft Touch Mouse. Logitech M557 Bluetooth Mouse Wireless Mouse with 1 Year Battery Life, Side-to-Side Scrolling, and Right or Left Hand Use with Apple Mac or Microsoft Windows Computers and Laptops, Gray. You can drag your finger against the mouse's angled matte top surface to scroll in four directions. Touch, in this instance, is relegated to a few basic scroll functions. It's really just a design evolution of the touch mice Microsoft already has on the market. The 'touch' in the Wedge Touch could seem misleading: this isn't a multitouch pad grafted onto a free-moving mouse. On a portable tablet, adding a keyboard and mouse can transform your tiny device into a full-fledged workstation. Decent port selection with Ethernet, 4X USB-C, 2x USB 3, HDMI and headphone jack.
A mouse can substitute for that missing touch pad and provide needed navigation, in a way the iPad currently can't. Edit: Perhaps the Mac Mini with monitor, keyboard, and mouse of your choice would be the ideal solution for you The new ones are pretty darned nice.
There's a reason why mice make more sense for Windows tablets than for full-fledged touch computers: some tablet keyboards, like the Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard, lack a touch pad.