Surface Pro 3 Pen Button Customization

Even though I'm not a graphic designer, I use the top button to open Edge and "Double-Click" to open Word. I would like to use the two side buttons for Back and Forward mouse buttons. That would be a great use. Because I don't see the Right Click button as a thing, because you can "tap and hold" and have the same outcome. So that function is totally useless.

There is a thread titled:

"Surface Pro 3 Pen Button Customization"

that was started in July of 2014, with over 20,000 views and 16 pages of comments by frustrated users.  This thread has been entirely ignored by Microsoft.  I'm thinking that the reason for this may be that this thread was started as a discussion thread instead of a question thread

So, using my thinking brain, (I'm smart that way) I thought I would pose it as a question....

Microsoft, are you going to support your user community that is actively looking to you for a solution to this issue?

Will you let us know if the customization of the three buttons on the Surface pen is anywhere on the radar screen?

Are 20,000 interested users enough for you to assign at least a low level intern to look into the matter and make some sort of a response?

Is a year and a half long enough to wait for any acknowledgement?

I am a previous owner of a Surface Pro 2, and loved the capability it provided of customizing the button commands per program through the Wacom drivers. As a new owner of the surface Pro 3, I a very disappointed to discover that the same functionality is not available in the N-trig driver options. As an artist, the primary use of my surface is for drawing inside of programs like Adobe Photoshop. Not being able to customize the button functions on the new pen is detrimental to my efficiency as a digital artist. Without the ease of having quick access to specific commands through the pen buttons, I am forced to either dig through the menus and submenus of the program to execute a simple command, or connect a keyboard to use hotkeys. One of the greatest features of the surface is the ability to draw inside of photoshop as if it were a paper notebook, freeing me from my desktop work space and removing the requirement of the mouse and keyboard. Without the customization of these pen buttons, I lose that freedom.

I spoke to a Microsoft support tech this morning who informed me that "hopefully" in the next month or two, this feature will be added to the pen drivers. While this is a new product, and I understand that some features are still in development, this feature is crucial in the workflow of any artist using this device. I already own a desktop computer and a laptop; so again, the primary function of the Surface Pro 3 for me is drawing inside of programs like Photoshop without the need for a mouse and keyboard. 

I don't know if any Microsoft representatives read these discussions, but if there is a way I could be included in any sort of pre-release developmental versions of drivers that introduce this capability, I would love to be a part of it and am happy to provide feedback from an artist's perspective. 

Thanks for reading.

Thanks for getting this started. Here's one for the architects out there as well.  

We need programmable buttons to navigate through basic 3D environments, Revit / sketchup / CAD.

Without it, its only effective as a viewing device at best.

Given increasingly how tech. Evolves, lets hope the driver (with pressure sensitivity curves) rolls out within the next month!

The Trackpad Settings app only works with the Surface RT and Surface 2 tablets.  If you can't find it in the Store, that means it is not compatible with your machine.  I don't know why Microsoft limited it to just those tablets but that fact was mentioned when I read the Surface Pro 3 User Guide in regards to the keyboard.

In fact, go to Microsoft's web site and click on "Surface" and look at the bottom of the web page and look for "Surface User Guides".  They have guides for all the tablets.  It is 108 pages long and describes just about everything.  Of course, it is also missing a lot of 'fine line' details but good enough.

So, open the Store and in the search box, type in "Touchpad Settings" (without quotes) and hit ENTER.  If it does show up, it should display what models it works with.  I think it should be available for all but it is not.

could you please point me to the trackpad settings app? I do also want to change the multitouch scrolling direction. is it on the windows app store?