My Surface Pro looks tiny in Photoshop

I just got the Surface Pro 2 and have the Photography program. The font and icons are terribly small in Photoshop. Lightroom looks great so I don't understand what is the problem with Photoshop. It makes it difficult to use. I heard of other people mentioning it in the reviews but didn't realize how stupid ridiculous it looks.
I'm paying $ 10 a month for a program where clearly no thought went into making sure it was properly scaled for Windows Tablets?
Has anyone heard when this will be fixed? This needs to be top priority!
I really hope to get a clear answer about this soon because its just ridiculous that it has not been taken care of. And I'll keep bugging Adobe until it is taken care of.
I'd except more from a company like Adobe.

You could try here:
Photoshop: Support scalable user interface UI for high resolution monitors
You are right, it should work correctly on all devices. However there are a lot of devices, It can be a daunting task to make sure it works smoothly on all devices, especially the user interface. If each device had to adhere to a standard, this may be helpful, but like web browsers each company thinks their way is better and its our way or no way attitude. That not only hurts 3rd party software companies, it hurts its users as they end up suffering trying to use the 3rd party software.
And thats the end of the excuse...
All that can be done is notify Adobe and wait for the fix, assuming they don't blame Microsoft like I just did. The two companies are really good at blaming each other instead of working together on solving their issues.

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Libil
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JNK-Art wrote:
I agree. I Fault Adobe and MS. Adobe wants you to pay a monthly fee for CC, so don't count on them updating their "not so old software" anytime soon. MS ... are just idiots. Always on the verge of greatness and they do something to mess it up. They are clueless that the vast majority of Surface Pro 3 users are artists.
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Just my observations.

Surface Pro pen pressure is not working in Photoshop

I just bought Microsoft Photoshop.
But Adobe Photoshop doesn't provide pen pressure sensitivity.
I tested Microsoft OneNote, Fresh Paint, and Autodesk Sketchbook. They are working well.
Please provide the pen pressure function in Photoshop too.

On the Main photoshop forum, one of the Adobe staff is stating that the issue is with Microsoft and not Adobe. I can not see the code nor do I own a surface pro therefore I can not confirm nor deny it. In other words, I am a poor lonely user with the same access as every other user. LOL.

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Hey there folks,
I figure I take some time to respond to the surface pro things,.....
@Alanomaly, yes pretty good so far, I can not complain about the pen pressure. MS had nothing to do with it except to communicatge with Adobe, and Wacom..as things go, all three needed to agree on working on this. The driver is through Wacom on their site under the Tablet PC select. Thats it. You load, restart PC an it works.
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