I decided to let it install Catalina to see if that improved things, but the action bar said it would take 900 hrs. I elderly Dad's I-Mac was running intermittently slow, most noticeable when starting large programs such as I-photos or Office, and it was also very slow re-boots, like 20 minutes. Not as pretty for sure, but similar performance as the old Excel. This wouldn't really help me though.ĮDIT: I tried Libre Office and the chart rendering is indeed significantly faster than the new Excel. You got me curious though, the specific spreadsheet I was speaking of is reasonably compatible with Libre Office, I am going to give it a try to see if the charts behave better. I really want to keep using Excel for various projects involving advanced features. Open Office or Libre Office won't cut it. I've been ignoring the warning from Microsoft for a while now (on my old Mac), but well, with the new Macbook, no choice, I have to go with the new OS. Microsoft Office 2011 is not compatible with Catalina. I use Open Office on my Mac, and it seems to run well enough you could try downloading it (it's free, optional donation) and see if its spreadsheet program runs better for you However, with Intel showing off its foldable dual-screen e-ink PC at Computex and Microsoft bringing its SwiftKey keyboard to Windows 10 in the latest preview build of the next release, something is clearly afoot.- can you reinstall Office 2011 and see if it's better? As well what may well be the expected budget Surface device, the leak also hinted at a major update to the Surface Pro line and also the near-mythical Andromeda device.Ī cynic might suggest that at this point Microsoft is simply trolling Windows Phone holdouts, who still dream of a Windows 10-powered Surface Phone. The Register asked Microsoft if there were any plans to perhaps shift Office 365 to a platform such as Progressive Web Apps and received a very clear message from a spokesperson: "No, we are not rewriting Office in JavaScript." Secret Surfaces and Swiftkey hintsĪ public "leak" of codenames led to a considerable amount of speculation on the shape of Windows devices over the coming year. While bits of the Office UI may see some love from React Native, the development team will continue using the likes of C++ where appropriate. The resultant furore arising from the possibility of Office 365 being ported to JavaScript led to a very public "clarification" from Larkin less than 12 hours later, explaining that while the likes of Teams and Visual Studio Code are written with TypeScript, which is compiled to JavaScript powered by Electron, C++ and C# would not be going away anytime soon (or ever). In response to some snark on the uses of scripting languages from J Daniel Garcia, an associate professor in computer architecture in Madrid, Microsoft's Sean Larkin snapped back with the following tweet:Īll of Office 365 is (almost finished) being completely rewritten in this little scripting language called #JavaScript.Īnd all of Debug Protocol (instead of C++) It also made some suspect that the software giant might be making a giant leap from its C++ roots for its Office suite. Office ported to JavaScript? No, not reallyĪ spat on social media shed light on how Microsoft is coding its wares. Hyperlinks can now be any colour a user desires and PowerPoint presentations need no longer suffer from poor alignment when put together on an iPad thanks to the inclusion of a digital ruler. The iOS incarnation of Office also received a version uptick last week. Hidden away in the release notes were updates to command line tools, allowing admins to control deployment and management of Office 2019 in a Mac environment, showing Redmond is taking seriously the creeping advance of Apple's shiny toys into the corporate world. Almost lost in the noise around the UI changes was the announcement of a commercial preview of Office 2019 for Mac, due to ship alongside the Windows incarnation and including the dreaded focused inbox for Outlook users. Microsoft announced plans to tinker with the Office UI, with the infamous ribbon being snipped to size and AI elbowing its way into the party to save users hunting for functions. STOP IT! NO!" as the show tried to get under way. Mark Kermode, film critic and contributor to the BBC's award-winning Wittertainment* radio show and podcast, was heard admonishing his laptop with: "No, I don't want you to update Windows. Microsoft also insisted that everything was fine and dandy in the Windows update world, which might come as a surprise to many users. Windows ups and downsĭishwasher comparison pros Which? weighed in on user grief over Windows 10 while Microsoft killed off a bunch of support forums for old versions of the OS. E3 aside, the team at Redmond were busy last week with a smattering of the good, the bad and the frankly odd.
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