Leaving your phone in another room is no longer a nuisance Instead of pushing desktop lovers away, Apple has mode moves to make life easier for those who reside in the world of traditional computing, and their mobile compatriots. PC owners have said it loud and clear: They just don’t like Windows 8. According to Net Marketshare, Windows 8 and 8.1 adoption stands at roughly 12.5 percent as of last month, which is about half of Windows XP’s share (25.27 percent) and a quarter of Windows 7’s (50.06 percent). Though Microsoft has attempted to repair its relationship with desktop PC users by adding a pseudo-Start menu and a dedicated power button (among other tweaks) to the tiled Modern UI in post-release updates, many remain unimpressed, according to usage statistics.

As Apple execs took to the stage and rattled off the operating system’s new features and tools, it became increasingly clear how wholeheartedly it was embracing desktop computer users, instead of pushing them to the side as Microsoft has done since Windows 8’s release in Fall 2012.

When Apple’s WWDC 2014 developer conference kicked off the first week of June, the world got its first look at OS X Yosemite.