“Sql Server and Visual Studio Revisited Hopefully the folks providing answers here will see this and add it to their fact lists: I asked the question regarding these two programs about 2 days ago and received 2 answers. One saying that SQL Server "might" run, but VS probably wouldn't download. The other from a Microsoft Team member telling me to check the developers specs on both programs (the developer being Microsoft: ironic? You decide!). Based on this I had pretty much decided to turn away from the Pro and forget about it, though I couldn't understand why the specs on this tablet wouldn't support the programs listed (esp when it's advertised as "laptop capability"). Luckily I decided to do some searching of my own and within MINUTES had examples of users running BOTH programs no problem: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/d48ea7cc-c6b6-4622-8a84-67cfe4db1cce/visual-studio-on-surface-pro http://www.davidklee.net/2013/03/05/sql-server-2012-on-microsoft-surface-pro/ Those are just two of about 10 hits on the subject, all with positive results. Sorry answer guys but you completely missed the boat on this one!”