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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1867551" data-attributes="member: 190607">See:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]http://www.macattorney.com/upos.html[/URL]I do not recommend upgrading to Catalina.&nbsp; Ever.&nbsp; You will lose the use of all of&nbsp; your 32-bit only apps.&nbsp; Catalina also had a couple of nasty bugs that were never fixed, including a data loss bug in Mail.If your Mac(s) have an internal rotating disk hard drive (rather than an SSD), I don't recommend upgrading to either Calalina or even Mojave.&nbsp; Mojave reformats your internal hard drive to APFS non-optionally.&nbsp; APFS is optimized for SSD's and not for RDHD's and so will impact performance if you have an internal RDHD.Unless you need to run something that will only run in Catalina, I'd stand pat with the version of the OS you are currenly running if it is working well.Office 2019 is the current version of the Microsoft Office suite that you are accustomed to.&nbsp; Office 365 is a subscription service that includes Office 2019 and a few other things such as storage space in the cloud.&nbsp; You can purchase Office 2019 for a one-time fee.&nbsp; You pay for 365 monthly in perpetuity, and when you cancel, you don't own a fully functioning copy of Office 2019.If you like Microsoft Office, and want to update it, you may instead want to check out this free alternative that is extremely similar:Free Office (free)[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.freeoffice.com[/URL]It might help if you tell us why you feel that you want/need to upgrade to Catalina.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1867551, member: 190607"] [B]See:[/B] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macattorney.com/upos.html[/URL] I do not recommend upgrading to Catalina. Ever. You will lose the use of all of your 32-bit only apps. Catalina also had a couple of nasty bugs that were never fixed, including a data loss bug in Mail. If your Mac(s) have an internal rotating disk hard drive (rather than an SSD), I don't recommend upgrading to either Calalina or even Mojave. Mojave reformats your internal hard drive to APFS non-optionally. APFS is optimized for SSD's and not for RDHD's and so will impact performance if you have an internal RDHD. Unless you need to run something that will only run in Catalina, I'd stand pat with the version of the OS you are currenly running if it is working well. Office 2019 is the current version of the Microsoft Office suite that you are accustomed to. Office 365 is a subscription service that includes Office 2019 and a few other things such as storage space in the cloud. You can purchase Office 2019 for a one-time fee. You pay for 365 monthly in perpetuity, and when you cancel, you don't own a fully functioning copy of Office 2019. If you like Microsoft Office, and want to update it, you may instead want to check out this free alternative that is extremely similar: Free Office (free) [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.freeoffice.com[/URL] It might help if you tell us why you feel that you want/need to upgrade to Catalina. [/QUOTE]

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