You can actually just grab the same window and make a corresponding "up-down-up" movement and it'll bring everything back. On personal machines I turn it off but if I'm doing something for someone else, this is a good thing to know.

Hrm, is there a keyboard shortcut for that restore action? Win+M will do the minimize-all thing but I never could figure out one for restore-all.

EDIT: Ah, of course, Win+Shift+M :)

You can turn it off.

The fact that it's defaulted to on and surprises users who don't even know about it is the problem.

"Minimize all other windows except this one" is a function that is rarely used and definitely not something a small movement of the mouse should trigger.

It was a feature advertised in commercials. It wasn't meant to be surprising