Of course, anecdotal evidence is worth almost nothing, but even if we accept it as being representative, we still don't actually know the switching probabilities here. For example, the windows->mac and mac->windows switching probabilities could be the same and you'd still see many times more windows->mac switchers because there are so many more windows users to begin with, so seeing many more windows->mac switchers than mac->windows switchers does not by itself tell us the probability of switching.
Even so, it is fun to note (for the purposes of riling up some people) that in the scenario where either switch was equally likely, you'd approach a steady state in which there were equal numbers of windows and mac users. In fact, given the current ratio of windows to mac users, the probability of a windows user switching to a mac could be quite a bit less than the probability of a mac user switching to windows, and you could still see an increase in mac usage.
From the responses to the initial question I see that it is very apparent that there is a far greater degree of probability that a Windows user will switch from Windows to Macintosh, or even Linux, than the other way around for their personal use This little poll has satisfied my curiosity on the question. Those who are fully satisfied with what they have been using, and are not going to switch in any case, and perhaps would not even contemplate such, were not the subject of the query in the first place, so their responses were moot. Steve
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