Surface Pro Pen pressure sensitivity is not working in photoshop CS6.

Wintab is old and if they want to move away from it, then fine, and that's on the developers to catch up. 

Wintab may be old, but it's far from outdated and broken. and pretty much all of major art/animation programs make use of it, and it seems like this will be the only tablet that doesn't use it. Samsung didn't force the move on its consumers, why is it justified for Microsoft to do it? I don't mean to sound like this guy (who pretty much started a whole campaign to ensure artists don't buy the Surface Pro) but come on, it's a problem that could've been easily avoided. 

I'm not saying it was smart or the right thing to do....only that it's their choice.  And that would have been fine if they had communicated that to customers prior to launch.  I just wouldn't have purchased their product.  As it is, MS has done a major disservice to many customers who were really excited about the Surface and are now left sitting with hardware they may not really want or even need.  Until they fix it, there are really no acceptable excuses because they were not as honest as they should have been from the start.  They certainly knew this was a problem and just hoped that either developers would clean up the mess or that it wouldn't be a big deal.  I can't even tell you how furious that makes me.

Wintab is old and if they want to move away from it, then fine, and that's on the developers to catch up. 

Wintab may be old, but it's far from outdated and broken. and pretty much all of major art/animation programs make use of it, and it seems like this will be the only tablet that doesn't use it. Samsung didn't force the move on its consumers, why is it justified for Microsoft to do it? I don't mean to sound like this guy (who pretty much started a whole campaign to ensure artists don't buy the Surface Pro) but come on, it's a problem that could've been easily avoided.

So, I already own a couple Intuos 4's... with licensed drivers. Has anyone tried installing these, or similar, drivers on their Surface Pro to see if it might resolve any of the issues with its pen not functioning properly in PhotoShop? I don't know, I may be way off here. I'm not much of an API or driver compatibility expert :-)

• Matt

From my past experience with a Cintiq display the Wintab API gave approximately 25x higher resolution for stylus position than the Microsoft APIs I tried, which seemed to quantise all positions to the nearest whole pixel :) (But I haven't tried other displays or the newest libraries so could be improved now).