Microsoft Says 'More People are Switching from Macs to Surface Than Ever Before'

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Posted December 12, 2016 at 2:57pm by Shalom Levytam

In blog post touting its new Surface products, Microsoft says more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before.

November was the best month ever for consumer Surface sales.

The Best Buy-exclusive Surface bundle sold out on the first day. The momentum was seen worldwide. In the UK, we had the best single week for Surface ever and in Germany the Surface Pen became the best seller in PC Accessories on Amazon.com for over 12 hours.

The company says its Macbook trade-in program is more popular than it has ever been.

More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation of Surface coupled with the disappointment of the new MacBook Pro – especially among professionals – is leading more and more people to make the switch to Surface, like this. It seems like a new review recommending Surface over MacBook comes out daily. This makes our team so proud, because it means we’re doing good work.

It's possible that Microsoft is seeing additional switchers of late as some users are disappointed with the latest MacBook Pro offering from Apple. There are have been concerns from some users over price, compatibility and performance.

Apple says "We are proud to tell you that so far our online store has had more orders for the new MacBook Pro than any other pro notebook before. So there certainly are a lot of people as excited as we are about it."

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geethreeforce - December 14, 2016 at 10:28pm

I work as an IT professional for large logistic service provider. I have been a Mac and Windows user for years. This year I decided to give Microsoft Surface a chance. Sold my MBpro Retina and purchased a brand new high end Surface tablet. The hardware was nice but poor batterlife and the minimal screen relastate was getting in the way of me beeing productive. And then there's Windows 10. Win10 is a great desktop OS which I use on a daily basis. But boy as a tablet OS it's just terrible and nothing more than a curiocity. My Surface was showing serious crashed and stability issues from time to time, which halted my workflow for hours. And the there's Windows updates. My Surface was regularly busy installing them at boot time, keeping me from doing work for minutes to hours. I therefore decided to sell the Surface and ordered new MBpro. My advice is. Give it a chance. It could work for you. For me it clearly did not.

Johann Schmidt - December 13, 2016 at 10:34pm

Does this mean I can pick up a used MacBook Pro for cheap?

Andrejw - December 13, 2016 at 12:03pm

Microsoft now day has a good design hardware, but its still use windows (will slowing after use several app and many virus)

Milad Mahmoodi - December 12, 2016 at 8:55pm

Surface products are incredibly better than mac products. It is undeniable. Perfect design, Powerful hardware and and of course more and one port that you can connect whatever that you like to them even in surface tablet Mac after Steve is a dead company

Milad Mahmoodi - December 13, 2016 at 12:17pm

Yes windows. The most popular operation system that is not like a toy :)) It is the main os for business, network and real work -

odedoo1 - December 12, 2016 at 6:47pm

I almost sold the Mac Book Pro that I got last year because I just got the new one, any way after a week of using the new one I'm returning it, everything about the new one is a bluff, my older pro is way more powerful, on the other hand I also bought a surface which sadly I find myself using more and more and using the Mac less, my new Mac Book Pro is going back to Apple I'm returning it because it's absolutely not worth getting one or keeping the new Dongle Pro, which makes me sad because I was always an Apple person but this new Apple company that thinks about money first and then their customers is not the Apple company that I fell in love with.

galford - December 12, 2016 at 4:18pm

Well, no one can guess 10 years ago, there will be no Nokia, so bad products and decisions can sink a company, no one had to buy products making life complicated, because others saying that it is the best product, using 6s plus and thinking it is the best phone in market that suits me

Hijg lander - December 12, 2016 at 3:41pm

But what are the numbers? 10 is also substantially more then 5.

S - December 12, 2016 at 3:21pm

Tim Cook is no Steve jobs... it had to happen one day. Nadella is on a mission and has to prove himself. That said .... I still love macs

Jim - December 12, 2016 at 3:18pm

That's only because they have their surface tablets on clearance pending release of the new Surface Tablets. Lol in some cases 50 percent off.

PerpetuallyBlue - December 12, 2016 at 5:24pm

They do??? Where?? I'd love to get one!!!

Stevenk - December 12, 2016 at 9:45pm

Where is this 50% sale again? Is it by any chance in a place called "Narnia"? I'd really like to know where that's happening. :-)

Bobby13123 - December 12, 2016 at 3:17pm

It wouldnt surprise, Apple didnt do any innovations on their maclines since the first retina macbook.