Microsoft updates Surface, but can it gain broad appeal?
ENT News | at | by Mike
Looking to give its Surface table top device more functionality, Microsoft today released its first service pack with a new SDK that the company says will give developers more flexibility in adding more features.
The SDK that comes with the Surface developer unit, which costs about $15,000, has a set of APIs, samples and tools, as well as Visual Studio project templates that support both XNA and WPF user interface frameworks.
Among the new features for developers in SP1 are extended identity tag resources, extensions to the API which include a WPF library and menu controls, and a stress-testing tool.