Microsoft Surface Pro Stylus Performance Issues

By Edwin Kee on 02/18/2013, filed in Home > Tablets

The 1080p display has excellent color rendering

Microsoft’s Surface Pro is a beautiful device on its own, but it is not going to break new ground into the duopoly of tablets that are currently being slugged out by Apple’s iOS as well as Google’s Android operating systems. Having said that, for those of you who have decided to throw your lot behind the Microsoft Surface Pro, you might have realized that the included pressure sensitive stylus does not really work all that well – for select users, of course.

It seems that a small band of Surface Pro users have discovered to their horror that the stylus itself is non-functional after a while. Statistics dictate that this could very well be an odd anomaly, but Microsoft is not going to cut corners and will look into the matter. So far, only a few reports in the Microsoft Answers forums have been posted, but nobody has managed to figure out a fix or the cause behind this issue. Alas, the traditional method of uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers result in a temporary fix, only. Hopefully an upcoming update might be able to ensure that such stylus woes are no more.

Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

Surface Pro: The Microsoft Surface Pro is a 10.6" (1080p) Windows 8 Pro tablet designed by Microsoft. It is a cousin of the Microsoft Surface RT tablet, which runs on a more limited Windows 8 RT OS. The Surface Pro is powered by an Intel Core i5 processor equipped with 4GB of RAM. As such, it can run any Windows application. At the same time, it features Windows 8's "Modern UI" tablet-style user interface aka Metro. For more information, read our full Surface Pro Review

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