Corporate adoption of Macs is extremely high in the realm of multinationals, a new study claims. The Yankee Group research firm says it has conducted a web-based survey of 700 global IT administrators and C-level executives, and determined that approximately 80 percent of multinationals have Apple computers operating in their networks. A quarter of these businesses report having a "significant" number of Mac clients installed.

Yankee researcher Laura DiDio attributes the adoption to the "consumerization" of the enterprise world, and particularly, a desire to have workers tied to their job wherever they travel. Companies are also said to think favorably of Apple's security, performance, ease of use and reliability, relative to other options in buying hardware and operating systems.