OneNote for Mac now requires Mac OS X Yosemite

I'm really wondering what is so wonderful about Yosemite that MS dropped Mavericks compatibility and made it a requirement to use OneNote.

Seeing posts from people who work on Office, Office 2016 for Mac has moved to moving all Yosemite API and UI code for the sake of project simplicity. It also allows Microsoft to later enable features like Handoff at a later date. Microsoft had no desire to maintain multiple sets of UI code for Office 2016 at this time, so they picked Yosemite as a starting point.

And what is the problem ? Code and full release One Note for Maverick exist . Why can't I get it for me ?

PS That's why I don't love Microsoft. Microsoft not love  users and users not love Microsoft.

You can see this nightmare in feedback about Yosemite on AppStore.

Reviews with score 1 = 239 now, with 5 = 179. Such stats prevents me to upgrade MacOs. I don't want to resolve such problems, I need to just work. Many many customers meet problems with graphical artifacts, low performance, broken Wi-Fi and so on.

Apple released 10.10.1 and 10.10.2, but problems are still not resolved.

So, please give us opportunity to install OneNote to Mac OS Mavericks.

I'm really wondering what is so wonderful about Yosemite that MS dropped Mavericks compatibility and made it a requirement to use OneNote.

Seeing posts from people who work on Office, Office 2016 for Mac has moved to moving all Yosemite API and UI code for the sake of project simplicity. It also allows Microsoft to later enable features like Handoff at a later date. Microsoft had no desire to maintain multiple sets of UI code for Office 2016 at this time, so they picked Yosemite as a starting point.

Yosemite is free, sure, but it is a horrible operating system.  Like the other reply, our family downgraded back to Mavericks, which is MUCH better.  So, again, if we want to  use OneNote, how do we get a version for Mavericks?  Also, forcing folks to upgrade for no apparent reason, or locking in to one version of an OS does not seem very sensible.

What's horrible about Yosemite?

I mainly downgraded to Mavericks because of com.apple.geod process freezing along with other major problems (freezing, stuttering) which makes the OS unreliable. Simplistic design is the only thing I liked about it.

I first had tons of problems when I performed an upgrade from Mavericks to 10.10.0 Yosemite. Then I tried a clean install of 10.10.0, and then also a clean install of 10.10.1. Same problem! I read that 10.10.2 still has this problem.

Apple integrating so many junk to the OSX for their iPhone/iPad users to unify the experience so that they can advertise them. They ran out of ideas, and now all they are adding is piling up buggy software junk to the OS. Yosemite is almost as bad as Windows Vista. Even at 10.10.2, it's still in beta phase for sure.

I'm really wondering what is so wonderful about Yosemite that MS dropped Mavericks compatibility and made it a requirement to use OneNote.

Since upgrading breaks VMware (paid upgrade required), I won't be upgrading to 10.10. So I guess I'll be stuck on the older version. Sigh.

What version of Fusion? Fusion 6 works fine for me here on Yosemite.