If Office:2015 is Yosemite only, will you update from your current OS X?

[sracer]

Just out of curiosity, what are people reasons for not upgrading their OS to the latest version when its a free update? Problems when upgrading OS are rare and even more rarely unfixable.

The problems that many of us are talking about are not the issues related to the physical act of upgrading from one version of OSX to another. THAT has been in my experience miraculously painless. Apple has done a great job with their OS update process/installer.

The problems that hold some of us back from installing are bugs in the operating system itself. Or changes in how OSX handles the hardware that are not as optimal as the previous version.

For example: Snow Leopard may have had a bumpy start, but the minor point upgrades to it made it more reliable and less prone to bugs. This relatively new annual cycle of OSX updates have created a situation where the bugs are never addressed to a level of stability that OSX once had. Just as they're closing in on that point, they release a new version of OSX that introduces new features and with it a new set of bugs... and the cycle starts all over again.

So here we are with Yosemite, that for some/many isn't at a level of stability and quality that is acceptable but will be "forced" to install it because of a key piece of software that requires it. (whether it is a legitimate requirement or lazy programming is yet to be determined)

Some of us will hold out until we absolutely need to have that piece of software that requires Yosemite. By then, OSX "Sacramento" (10.11) will be launched which starts the cycle all over again.

IMO, there needs to be longer term life cycle in OSX. Annual updates to a desktop OS are not good. If it continues, I suspect that I won't be alone in taking a serious look at alternatives.

Is it just a case of being stubborn against change and being stuck in your ways or are there other reasons people don't want to get the new OS and new features etc for free?

I'm sure that there are a few people like that, but if you've spent any amount of time on this forum, you'd know that it isn't the prevailing thought of those who won't upgrade.

 

[Agent-J]

Just out of curiosity, what are people reasons for not upgrading their OS to the latest version when its a free update? Problems when upgrading OS are rare and even more rarely unfixable. Is it just a case of being stubborn against change and being stuck in your ways or are there other reasons people don't want to get the new OS and new features etc for free?

I was pretty much a day-1 upgrader to Mavericks, it had features I wanted. I found it to be a visually attractive and stable OS.

Yosemite brought nothing of interest to me (Apple decided not to support handoff/continuity on my BluetoothLE 2011 MacMini #ThanksTimCook). The pseudo-flat icons and new system font are visually unappealing to me.

Also, I rely on my Macs for work. I don't want to run the risk of breaking a working system without a clear upside.

Free isn't a part of the equation for me. I'm happy to pay for functionality. Just because it's free and Jony has decided he knows what I want more than I do, doesn't obligate me to upgrade. I'll echo the calls for Apple to stop this major yearly update stuff for the Mac OS. Not everybody has the ADD that requires a shiny new UI every year.

 

[maflynn]

Just out of curiosity, what are people reasons for not upgrading their OS to the latest version when its a free update? Problems when upgrading OS are rare and even more rarely unfixable. Is it just a case of being stubborn against change and being stuck in your ways or are there other reasons people don't want to get the new OS and new features etc for free?

I think it if you don't too, and you see the issues people have run into. I can understand the hesitancy. There's also the change in the UI which I'm not all that jazzed up about either.

 

[GreatDrok]

Yosemite brought nothing of interest to me (Apple decided not to support handoff/continuity on my BluetoothLE 2011 MacMini #ThanksTimCook). The pseudo-flat icons and new system font are visually unappealing to me.

I have a Mac mini 2009 which doesn't support handoff, and a MacBook Pro which does. Frankly, I don't use it. I tried it once just out of interest but it isn't a deal breaker that it doesn't work with the mini. What does work though is the phone connectivity. Best thing is when I'm at my desk and the phone rings but my phone is way upstairs and I can just pick it up on my mini. That works perfectly even on the old machine.

I've been on Yosemite since the first betas (dev account) and I've really come to like it. It is nowhere near as flat as something like Windows 8 is and it still has bits of transparency just like earlier versions. Shadows still make it obvious which window is in front and it all looks really nice and polished. I like the consistent look between my phone and the desktop, the new spotlight and so on. The only change I've made is to increase the cursor size because my old eyes struggle to find it some time. There are plenty of accessibility controls that help. The fonts all look fine to me even though I'm switching between a retina display and a normal display. The earlier betas had a really poor font choice which looked bad on anything that wasn't retina but now it is fine. It feels much more finished than everything post Lion was which introduced a bunch of changes to move away from Snow Leopard. Yosemite feels like we're actually getting some consistency. MS Office 2011 sticks out like a sore thumb but I'm not sure about the new Office 2015 as that's consistent with the Windows version but still doesn't feel all that 'Mac'.

 

[grahamperrin]

… I've been on Yosemite since the first betas …

Will you update from Yosemite?

 

[GreatDrok]

Will you update from Yosemite?

Probably :-D

I'll likely give the beta of 10.11 a whirl once it is available but I'm not expecting them to go nuts with the UI this time around as they'll probably focus on the underpinnings and stick with the current look.