Nearly One in Four Windows Users Surveyed Plan to Switch to Mac Within Next Six Months

Wednesday June 28, 2017 1:32 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol
Nearly 21 percent of current Windows laptop owners and 25 percent of current Windows desktop owners intend to switch to a Mac within the next six months, according to a recent survey conducted by market research firm Verto Analytics.


Verto Analytics told MacRumors the survey is based on 6,000 current Windows PC owners age 18 and older in the United States.

Of the respondents, those with an average annual income of $150,000 or more showed the highest likelihood of switching to a Mac.


By comparison, the research firm said at least 98 percent of current Mac owners surveyed intend to stick with Mac as their next computer. In other words, only 2 percent of current Mac users surveyed are planning to switch to another computer brand, be it running Windows or another operating system.

Microsoft is experiencing a resurgence in the post-PC world with an attractive lineup of devices, such as the new Surface Pro and Surface Studio desktop computer, which have even caught the attention of some Apple aficionados.

Last December, Microsoft said more people were switching from Mac to Surface devices than ever before following the supposed "disappointment" of the 2016 MacBook Pro, particularly among professional users.

In April, however, Microsoft said Surface revenue declined 26 percent to $831 million last quarter, down from $1.1 billion in the year-ago quarter. By comparison, Apple reported Mac revenue of $5.84 billion last quarter, a 14 percent increase from $5.1 billion in the year-ago quarter, on the strength of a new MacBook Pro.

Microsoft's new Surface devices should help it combat that decline, while Lenovo, HP, and Dell, the top three worldwide Windows PC vendors, saw shipment growth last quarter, according to market research firm Gartner.

Tags: Microsoft, Windows
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levitynyc
32 months ago
They should show them the price of the MacBook Pro and see if the poll results are still the same.
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lunarworks
32 months ago
The question is how many will follow through on that plan?
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severe
32 months ago
Funny. I recently switched to a Windows machine after nearly 18 years on Mac, both professionally and privately. Still an Apple fan, but haven’t looked back. New machine screams and Windows is much more enjoyable than expected.
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AJ5790
32 months ago

The funny thing is that people with an average household income of less than 15k/year are within 6 percentage points of being as likely to switch to the Mac as people with an average household income of more than 150k.

So, are the people in the <15k group planning on finding higher paying jobs or banking on winning the lottery?

Students getting financial assistance.
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MH01
32 months ago
Reading the comments in MR and the new MBP, 3 in 4 Mac users planning to switch to windows,
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Nunyabinez
32 months ago

6000 PC owners is not a very broad base for such a survey. Seen the totality of all Windows PC owners (I am one of those), 20 percent seems quite a bit too high for me. That would mean tens of millions more of mac books or iMacs sold over the next year... Time will tell. I have a brand new iPAD pro, but I will certainly not swich to Mac.


I don't mean to be rude, but your comment makes it clear that you do not know very much about statistics and statistical inference. A good random sample of 6000 is actually huge and would likely have a considerable amount of power (predictive ability).
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ct2k7
32 months ago
It says:

Windows Owners Are More Likely to Make a Switch to Mac

Now, what else are they expected to switch to? Linux?

EDIT: I need raw data dammit.
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Duane Martin
32 months ago
While I appreciate so many skeptical "members" of MRs calling into question the methodology of the survey (too bad the same level of scrutiny does not come into play with more important issues in the US) I remain astonished that facts are once again so easily ignored:

"In April, however, Microsoft said Surface revenue declined 26 percent ('https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2017-Q3/press-release-webcast') to $831 million last quarter, down from $1.1 billion in the year-ago quarter. By comparison, Apple reported Mac revenue of $5.84 billion ('https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/02/2q-2017-results/') last quarter, a 14 percent increase from $5.1 billion in the year-ago quarter, on the strength of a new MacBook Pro ('https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/05/tim-cook-strong-demand-2016-macbook-pro/')."

Sure looks to me like there might be something to the survey and reconfirms that MR forums exist within the dark side of current Apple-haters reality distortion field.
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napabar
32 months ago
Hey, MacRumors....how can Microsoft be experiencing a "resurgence" when you just pointed out their revenue is down, and 1 out 4 Windows users are switching to Mac in the next 6 months? Do you even read your articles before publishing them?
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chriscrowlee
32 months ago
Now there's a funny headline... talk about taking a small aspect of a survey and reporting a headline to make it seem like something completely different. Less than 1% of the world's population makes $150k+ per year. To say 20 percent of that 1% is considering switching as a headline is just bad reporting.
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