Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before

I am one of them.

They were 100.000.

Now they are 200.000.

100% increase -- record rates. But totally inconsequential.

(Numbers out of my ass, but without specifics, they are as good as the claim).

I'm one of the people that switched from a MacBook Pro to the new Surface Book.

The ENTIRE experience was dreadful for me.

The day I went into the Microsoft store to purchase it (Black Friday), their credit card system was down, so I had to wait around for nearly 2 hours until they finally figured things out. That wouldn't typically upset me, but my brother-in-law went through something similar just 2 weeks prior. Aside from that, the reps in the store were constantly trying to up-sell me on different items and get me to purchase other things throughout the store. This is something that is extremely irritating to me and something that I appreciated the reps at the Apple Store not doing.

As far as the actual product goes - I found the trackpad to be lacking. It just FELT a bit buggy and non-responsive at times. I have yet to find a trackpad as solid as the ones that Apple ship. This became more apparent of time after using the product. Aside from the trackpad I don't have too many complaints, except for things that are of personal preference (I can't say I like the design / functionality of the snake hinge). I also realized, as mainly a pro user, that I don't have much use / need for the touch screen or tablet portion of the device.

Needless to say, I ended up returning the device and buying the new touch-bar 15" MBP a few days ago. Aside from how annoying it is to locate / use the touch-based Esc key, it's a really solid device.

>> It is realistic to believe that at least some people would switch platforms.

I know "Post-PC" is the more popular buzzword, but "Post-OS" is probably a good one to use.

So much stuff is in the cloud these days that a lot of non-developers and non-creatives can probably use any OS these days without too much pain.

I switched to Windows from Mac a couple of years ago, and honestly, I don't miss it much. I did have to write off a pile of Mac software purchases, but I found reasonably priced alternatives that work as well.

If I get sick of Windows, I can easily transition to something else. Outside of some platform specific games, I can do just about everything I do now on another OS.

Dude! Thank you for your "disorganized" response! I'm kinda married to the 16 release of Ubuntu right now and it does not seem worth it yet for the Surface 3 Pro. I hope I will never have to run / use Windows again. Not enough hours in my life to make it worth ever going back.