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

You have got to be kidding... The one software program that the pen should work with more than anything else, and it doesn't work and has no support..  I ordered this device last night because of all the talk about Wacom and that it's going to be a great tool for artists! I payed 1200 for this device almost specifically for use with Photoshop and other major design applications. It doesn't work... Well I guess I have two weeks to get some kind of positive answer from either MS or Adobe or it will most likely be returned. 

I'm curious, did you consider buying a Wacom Intuos Drawing Pad for use with the Surface?  I just bought the Intuos Pro and am now wondering if it's a necessary item. If you don't mind, I'm interested in your thoughts regarding why you did or didn't go with the Inuos for use with your Surface, or some other drawing pad. Was it money, the inconvenience of an additional piece of hardware, or something else? Thank you

If you don't mind, I'm interested in your thoughts regarding why you did or didn't go with the Inuos for use with your Surface, or some other drawing pad.

Because the Wacom drawing pad technology is already built into the screen. All you need to do is install the Wacom Feel WinTab drivers.  Upgrading to Photoshop CC 2014 works, too since that version supports the new default "Windows ink" pressure sensitive drivers.

I don't work for Microsoft so I can only guess. But I believe the move away from Wacom was both a cost and technical issue. If you look around at any of the Wacom enabled devices in the market, you'll notice they are usually about $100 more than any non-Wacom enabled device. Moving to N-Trig may have been a less costly option for Microsoft. Wacom devices also do suffer from less battery life for the device, since under the screen is the powered Wacom digitizer layer, which in N-Trig is eliminated because the power for the pen is moved into the pen itself. I've also heard that the move away from Wacom was necessary to make the device thinner.

The Photoshop issue these days isn't as bad, since CC 2014 has "experimental" features to make the application more touch friendly, like making the UI scale larger and allowing for gesture rotation and zooming.

My Surface Pro's digitizer seems horribly inaccurate.  

I picked the Surface Pro since I have a ThinkPad X41t which uses the same type of stylus and the ThinkPad has always been 100% accurate in all operating systems with no calibration required.

I have had the Surface Pro for eight months but rarely use it since the keyboard isn't supported under Linux.  In fact, I haven't even been able to get any distro of Linux successfully installed, so all that remains is Windows 8.  

It has never been mishandled, dropped, etc.  It has spent the majority of its time in my closet.

When drawing In the upper right corner, the digitizer deviates from a straight line anywhere up to 2mm with or without calibration data.  The same issue occurs with my X41t stylus on the Surface Pro.  I performed the power off 15s reset, per Microsoft's site, but that didn't help.

Also, in MS Journal, drawing lines shows a surprising amount of jitter.

Is this Surface Pro a dud or is this the normal behavior of the Surface Pro's Wacom Digitizer?