Also, older Macs would benefit if upgraded at least to macOS Sierra for which Apple still releases security patches.Choose from thousands of free or premium Microsoft Office templates for every event or occasion. However, for users that need to run 32-bit apps on Mac, the best macOS is Mojave. In 2021 it is macOS Big Sur. The best Mac OS version is the one that your Mac is eligible to upgrade to.Safari in this version not only becomes much faster (Apple claims it is the fastest desktop browser, I am not sure about this), but also has a feature to stop the most annoying feature on the web: autoplay videos. Important enhancements in the APFS include faster speed in file copy, built-in encryption, crash-safe protections. Instead of using HFS+ file system, a new file system, Apple File System (APFS), was introduced. There are some nice changes in the new OS.
![]() Selling Office 2011 Software Would NotIf I remember correctly, Parallel has done the same trick almost every time a new Mac OS is released since then. Forgot from which version of new Mac OS release, Parallel announced the old version Parallel software would not work on the new MacOS and existing customers must pay extra fee to upgrade to new version if want to continue to use Parallel on the new Mac OS. I used to have Parallel software for my VMs on Mac many years ago and it worked great. If this is the case, It would hesitate to upgrade my Macs to the new version: High Sierra.I have been there before. While many other programs are still supported and running on macOS High Sierra, it looks bad if Office 2011 is not working in High Sierra, especially Word and Excel are some of the most popular applications people used daily. As a reminder, after that date there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or technical content updates. But if I can keep using my paid Office 2011 on my home Mac, it would be perfect.I checked out Microsoft Office Support page, it has the following statement:Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Lync have not been tested on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and no formal support for this configuration will be provided.All applications in the Office for Mac 2011 suite* are reaching end of support on October 10th, 2017. Anyway my company laptop will have Office 2016 subscription. I don’t see paying annual subscription to new Office 2016 makes sense to me. Anyway, my use of Word and Excel at home is very basic, just some simple Word and Excel documents. Although I missed some nice features from Parallel, VirtualBox meets all of my requirements for my VM and it is free.Similarly, if Microsoft Office 2011 is not working at all on macOS High Sierra, I will switch to Apple’s Pages and Numbers, or Google Docs. Anyway, all applications in the Office for Mac 2011 suite are reached the end of support on Oct. So if running into issue in Word and Excel, don’t call Microsoft support. But the wording does not say the Office 2011 is not going to run on High Sierra. I want to do a complete new fresh installation long time ago. After many years running and installation, many software were installed on the computer and the Mac was terribly slow. I happen to have a Mac at home that indeed needs a complete refresh. I will see whether Microsoft Office 2011 works or not in the new macOs High Sierra. If it fails, I will not use Office on this Mac.After reading some articles about moving Office 2011 to a new Mac and did some preparation work, I finally made it successfully. I must wipe out my Mac for a fresh installation and have to test the steps to move Office license files. This time, I have to a good opportunity to do it. I was stuck in this situation for several years. Although there are some articles about moving Office 2011 license files for application migration to new Mac, I was always skeptical and worried what happened if it didn’t work. But if I do a complete wipe out, I have to reinstall Office 2011 and I could not find my license key anymore. ![]() This step is going to wipe out everything on the default partition.After reboot, immediately press Option + Command + R keys at the same time. It’s good to backup these Office 2011 directories.Then backup the following three license related files./Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plistIf you just do the High Sierra upgrade, do not do this step. In addition to the backup, I also copied the followings to an external drive.The following directories are mainly for backup purpose, not really used during the migration step. The followings are the steps:Of course, I need to do a full time-machine backup before doing anything else. On top of that, I did the office 2011 migration successfully. It was much faster and successful. Top mac system cleanerIt was hang for about 30 seconds. It looks good to me, but I did notice Word is doing the work like “Optimizing Font Performance” when the first time Word was Open. But basic functionality seems working and that’s enough for my usage.My Office for Mac 2011 version is 14.4.0. I am sure there are certain features might not fully functional on the new OS. The Office 2011 works on macOS High Sierra. Go through the regular mac OS installation screens to complete the High Sierra installation.Install Office 2011 software and it will show the screen to license information at the end.Unfortunately, Quit in Office 2011 was not working and I had to do the force kill from Activity Monitor.Copy the three backed up file from external drive to the same path on the new system.Start Word or Excel. Here are my steps at high level:1. After many tries and research, I figured out a way to bring back my Mac. It was always stuck in the middle of booting. All of the tricks I could find on the internet did not work as I felt it was caused by a bad (corruption) sector on the boot section of the physical disk. Booted from USB disk again. Just to try to be safe in case I wiped out the original disk.3. Backed it up using two ways: 1) Migration Assistant (don’t remember exactly) 2) physically copied everything to another external USB hard disk. Then I could see the hard disk on my old Mac. Booted from this USB disk. (Many blogs about this topic)2. My old Mac worked again.I wished I would have documented this process in a blog. Restore this backup to my old Mac. From here, I can finally do a time machine backup.5. It was a slow but have everything I had from my old Mac on this external hard disk. Booted from this external hard disk with everything (just like my old mac). It was slow process, but it worked.4. If it works, I feel like you can bring back your old Mac. You might want to try to restore it to an external hard disk and see whether it is working or not. Although you could do step 5 and restore directly from your Time Machine, it might be risk if the backup is not a good one.
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