Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Running MS Surface SDK on Win Vista 64 / Windows 7

I just found this great post (http://www.grumpydev.com/2008/12/26/surface-sdk-on-vista-x64/) on how to install the SDK on Windows Vista 64 bits and used it to get it working on my Win7 64 bits machine. Removing a couple of more launch conditions in the MSI did the trick for Win7.

As mentioned in the original post, no guarantees, but I'm happy I can leave our MS Surface unit outside my room now. You don't need additional heating in your room with the unit on :-) but you do need ear plugs due to the fan :-(. Ok for public spaces I guess but not in my office.

Bye,
Bart