I’m pretty limited in what I can install, so add ons aren’t an option.
It works well in Windows at remembering which is why it’s so frustrating.
And Just as I was looking forward to a Mac near future of working it’s all gone wrong.
On Friday last week, I updated to the latest version of Sequoia and the machine now regularly pauses for such massive actions as right clicking in Finder or Outlook, swiping up with 3 fingers on the trackpad to see all of my windows, or trying to open a locally saved document in Word or Excel.
I only updated from 15.1 to 15.2 which came out a month ago, so if it was a bug, I’d have expected it to be corrected by now.
It’s an Intel I7 Macbook Pro 16” from 2019. Neither the Processor or Memory are maxed out at any time. Processor rarely hits 20% and Memory is comfortably sitting at 12gb from 16GB installed.
I don’t know why it’s struggling, but it is 
And after doing some searching online, it seems it’s not just Intel machines struggling with 15.2, M1 and M2 owners are complaining that it’s ground their machines to a halt.
I’m crossing my fingers that 15.3 fixes whatever has gone wrong.
The problem may be due to one or more of the 42 security patches included in 15.2. That is not uncommon in Apple updates these days. iOS 18 has included more than 2X that number.
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No inside knowledge, but maybe by the end of the week 15.3.
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I’ve been running Sonoma all this time and finally got around to upgrading to Sequoia (macOS 15.2) yesterday afternoon on my M1 MacBook Air (16GB 1TB). After the upgrade, my system is running as well as before. My Adobe photo apps (which are the ones I was concerned about) seem fine. I did decline the offer to set up Apple Intelligence and iPhone Mirroring features. Don’t know how much of a difference that would make but neither feature is of interest to me.
What really pushed me to upgrade now was a desire to run the trial version of the Supercharge
app, which requires macOS 15.2! 
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This week after a couple of weeks without touching it, I wiped my Windows laptop and put it back into stock as a spare.
I’m very comfortable I can do everything I need for my job on the Mac.
What have I learned?
- the 16” is massive and a bit unwieldy, if I could choose, I’d take a 14” instead.
- The I7 processor with 16GB of memory is OK, I’d love to see some of this stuff fly on an M3/M4 chip, especially as by the end of any day, I tend to have more than 20 windows open. And that’s with me closing documents as I go too.
- Microsoft Apps on a Mac while usable are definitely second class citizens. E.g. you can’t drag an attachment from Outlook to SharePoint. You can’t open a document from SharePoint and then save a copy of it into the same folder (you need to save it to a folder and then drag it into the appropriate SharePoint location)-
- Microsoft Outlook on a Mac is about 20% of the app that the Windows version is. Two major annoyances. 1) You can’t see the Junk folder on shared mailboxes and 2) you can set a Flag on an email with a due date, you can’t see a view of all of your flagged emails sorted by due date.-
- Having native OmniFocus on my work laptop is heavenly after years of either using it separately on an iPad or using OF for the Web
- The screen on the Macbook blows the Dell windows Machine away. I appreciate it’s not really a fair comparison between a £700 Dell and a £2,000+ MBP though.
- I’m using the MBP as my Keyboard and Trackpad both at home and in the office so that I have a consistent experience at both. It’s really workable. Plus it means I have 3 screens to work with.-
- Window placement/tiling is still annoying (I can’t use Moom or any other 3rd party tool) I much prefer the way Windows does it, especially on Windows 11.
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Outlook is probably my biggest gripe on MacOS and this discrepancy has been the case for years. Don’t hold your breath.
I’ve been trying to use web outlook more but that is also hamstrung by its own set of limitations.
Raycast does such a great job for this and many other functions on Mac. Highly recommended if you’re able to install it.
I can’t install anything like moom or Raycast unfortunately.
After stating recently on this very forum that I never have problems with teams, it’s been unusable today. I’ve had to request a Windows notebook just in case.
The one MS product that I insist people drop in favor of the highly robust Zoom whenever possible 
Have not had problems with it much but then again I rarely use it.
I rarely have problems with Teams on Mac or Windows these days, but today was a Cluster.
This is over for now unfortunately and I’ve reverted to a Windows Laptop 
The number of small frictions have been bothing me for a couple of months, but I persisted. Things like:
- Being unable to save directly into SharePoint
- Word REALLY struggling with significantly redlined contract documents
- The number of updates I receive for Microsoft products which can only be patched disruptively (This is managed by Jamf)
- Mac Microsoft Outlook being significantly slower and worse than the WIndows version
- If you do anything in the Outlook Calendar, you then cannot do anything else until it’s sync’d the change.
On their own none of them are significant, but during a day which is already tremendously busy, it adds up and was starting to really annoy me.
Reverting means the low of instant access to OmniFocus (Managing this on my iPad again) and to Tot I’m also having to relearn Microsoft keyboard shortcuts.
But it has been like slipping back into an old pair of slippers on the whole and has reduced my frustration a lot, but boy do I miss the Keyboard and Trackpad on the Macbook, the Dell version is so very poor.
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The common thread in all your bullet points is Microsoft software on a Mac. Reminds me of the old adage “MS-DOS isn’t done until Lotus (1-2-3) won’t run.”
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Bummer.
I see a clear solution:
- get them to write all legal contracts in markdown (you might need a flavour like Bookdown)
- get everyone else in the office to use Mac’s
…
Just two easy steps. You will post back here with a mission accomplished note in less than a month I’m sure.
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If only it was that easy. It’s not just my company, it’s the many, many external parties I deal with.