So The News is Out! Surface Pro 3 No More On Microsoft Stores

Microsoft announced the end of the Surface 3 tablet several months ago, and it made good on that promise. Now, the Surface Pro 3 has gone missing from Microsoft Stores online too. 

Searches through Google point to still-running webpages for the product, but buy links now redirect to the Microsoft Store’s homepage. I personally talked to their online customer support agent, and he instead lead me to a Certified Refurbished Surface Pro 3. Which means it days are over indeed.

Going back as far back as January 30, some news websites reported the Surface Pro 3 departure, just days after Microsoft’s January 26 earnings call in which it mentioned the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 replacing the Surface 3 specifically in its lineup.

Microsoft has not, officially, made any mention of the discontinuation of the Surface Pro 3, having released fresh firmware for this device specifically just at the end of January. Not to mention right about when reports of it going missing from Microsoft’s online stores were published.

Being a third-generation Surface device like the Surface 3, it would make sense for Microsoft to discontinue the Pro version alongside this one, though the lack of any specific word on the matter is unexpected.

Perhaps Microsoft is making room in its portfolio for a forthcoming Surface Pro 5 and Surface Book 2, both expected to launch later this year. Regardless, without a statement from Microsoft, anything said on the Surface Pro 3’s disappearance is pure speculation.