A:Answer I believe the Surface pen is N-trig technology, which is different from the Wacom technology in this, so I don't believe it would work. The Bamboo pen should. I would recommend the bamboo pen over the dell pen that comes with it because the dell pen has very poor customization options for the buttons on the pen. I've been trying to set one of them to be a right click (simple right!?) They don't have right click as an option and instead it only gives you a context-sensitive option that doesn't work as right click all the time.