Microsoft Surface Keyboard and Hardware Start button not responding

I have been quite happy with the Microsoft Surface RT Device and the overall Windows 8 experience. Being a Windows 8 developer, i find it a very intuitive experience to working with Windows 8. But not all users are developers so an end users experience with Windows 8 does matter if Windows 8 really has

Win8 RT – Activation of the app for the Windows.Launch contract failed

While submitting an update to my existing windows 8 RT app I ran into a problem which was very weird. The only message I could see when I launched the app from the Surface RT was from the Event Viewer. Here is the error that was logged in the event viewer with Event ID: 5961