OneNote for Mac now requires Mac OS X Yosemite

Anonymous
2015-02-18T06:31:14+00:00

With today's OneNote for Mac update in the App Store (version 15.7.1), we've changed the minimum system requirements for OneNote to take advantage of the latest and greatest capabilities in Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10). Yosemite (10.10) is a free upgrade and is supported on the same hardware as Mavericks (10.9).

If you previously installed OneNote for Mac and are on OS X Mavericks (10.9), you can continue using the older version of OneNote for Mac, however in order to get today's update or any future OneNote updates, you must upgrade your OS to Yosemite 10.10 or later.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-04-01T02:56:18+00:00

    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.

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  2. btbt 11,841 Reputation points
    2015-03-13T20:06:28+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-13T19:17:31+00:00

    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.

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  4. btbt 11,841 Reputation points
    2015-03-11T23:49:14+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-03-11T08:53:39+00:00

    Is there any place where i could download the last "good-old-version" that runs on 10.9  ???

    Thanks

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