Office 2016 and newer work fine on new Macs. If you want to blame someone blame Microsoft. Office 2011 is now TEN YEARS old and no longer receives updates from Microsoft. And as for your rant about macOS changes Microsoft has complete control over that. No, it’s not easy to revert to Mojave if you don’t know what you are doing as it requires a complete erasure of your boot drive. Is it easy to get back to Mojave from 10.15.7, Catalina? I now have 4 great Canon printers that don't work with my new M1 MacBook.

I wonder if I should go back to Mojave? Apple should really advise of the wreckage they do to software, printer drivers and other software (like film scanner drivers.) when they dramatically change OS. and useful things like envelopes or labels tools used to work better on the older versions. I have to admit, I liked the old 'buy and install' type of software. I do have a 365 license through work, but it is for online, so it's not very desirable, and won't work if I'm not in WiFi. but 365 will require either a new purchase, or I fear, a 'subscription', i.e. Hi! Thanks - You are right, it is the 2011 version of Office. All of that means if you buy Office 2019 now, you'll have to pay full price again for Office 2022 (or whatever MS calls it) in order to have a functioning perpetual version of Office beyond Big Sur. Meaning, MS will be releasing a new perpetual license version to coincide with Apple's next OS. Since 2019 was released with Mojave, that means Big Sur is the third OS version, and it will not work in whatever Apple releases this fall. Microsoft's latest Mac rule is perpetual releases of Office are only supported for three Mac OS releases.

Office 2019 is nearly dead - if you upgrade to the next major OS Apple releases this fall.

Only bug fixes or minor improvements to existing features.

Office 2019 does not get new features.

Office 2019 is a one-time cost perpetual license.

Office 365 gets new features as they're ready to release.

The cheapest is $70 a year for a one computer license. There's almost nothing different between the two, with these exceptions:

Your choices for an M1 Mac (presuming you specifically need Office and not a workalike product) are Office 365 or Office 2019. Apple can't do that for them, and vendors get plenty of advance documentation of what they need to do. It's up to third party vendors to keep their products up-to-date so they work in the latest OS. The Mac and its OS are their products, they can do whatever they want with them. With only a few, very rare exceptions, you can't install an OS that's older than what your Mac shipped with.Īpple didn't wreck anything. Apple's products have always been this way. This is also true of the most current Intel based Macs. You cannot install any OS older than Big Sur on any M1 Mac.

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