MINNEAPOLIS & IBM stole the show at the annual Jamf Nation User Conference this week when it announced that Mac users are more likely to stay with the company and will be more productive while they're there.IBM happy Apple orchestraIBM CIO Fletcher Previn talked up fresh IBM findings that show those of its employees who use Macs are more likely to stay with IBM and exceed performance expectations compared to PC users.The details of his claims are:There are 22% more macOS users who exceeded expectations in performance reviews, compared to Windows users.High-value sales deals tend to be 16% larger for macOS users, compared to Windows users.macOS users are 17% less likely to leave IBM, compared to those who use Windows.MacOS users are happier with the third-party software availability within IBM — just 5% of macOS users ask for additional software, compared to 11% of Windows users.It possible these claims reflect some other difference between Mac and PC users, but with hundreds of thousands of IBM employees in the sample group it hard not to see some contribution from the choice of computing platform.