I have a late 2013 iMac which has been running on Yosemite for years. In the past few weeks web use on Safari has been atrocious. Latest problem is that whenever I click on a link, I either get a pop up from safari saying do i want the link to open in another link or the link is highlighted in blue. With a 2013 iMac and 2011 microsoft office tools, will i blow up my computer if i update the OS? Are there other options to fix this?
I would do the OS first. Also be sure you have a current and full backup of your boot drive before upgrading to Catalina.
Also if you want to know which of your current apps will not run under Catalina download and run the free GO64 app. It will tell you which won't work with Catalina and which will. It's worth every penny.
Depends how far you update it, the less the better for old apps generally, but...
Modern Browser that works in 10.11 & up...
Look into the Free LibreOffice, it handles MS Office files…
Apple macOS (Mac OS X)
The software and hardware prerequisites for installing on a Apple macOS computer are as follows:
It is a recommended best practice to back-up your system and data before you remove or install software.
Office for Mac 2011 is a 32 bit applicaiton and will not run on 10.15.x (Catalina) and beyond. You would need to upgrade your version of Office for Mac to either Office 365 (subscription model) or buy Office for Mac 2019, $149 for home and student edition.
Browsers are regularly updated for various reasons including security, so a version that worked in Yosemite will be "retired" at some point. I'm surprised yours has worked this long. Yosemite was 10.10.x and we are at 10.15 with the next one in the works. I would not recommend this (because there hasn't been a security update for your version of Safari for some time), but you can try a different browser. However, the current version of others probably will not work on your Yosemite. The 2013 imac can handle Catalina, but be sure to check how much RAM you have: max it out as the newer OS versions want more RAM.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210222
FWIW, you can forget about MS that old. You will need to update that and probably others. Catalina is only compatible with 64 bit apps, so you may have others as well., you can check them here:
Thank you. Do you think i should upgrade the OS first or the Microsoft Office first?
I would do MS Office first.
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