New tools in Keynote make presentations more engaging, with the ability to show a live camera view of the presenter directly in slides, and more collaborative with multi-presenter control. Retroactive does not allow iWork '09 to work in Catalina or Big Sur.Apple today updated its iWork suite of productivity apps with new features, including pivot tables in Numbers, that enable users to present in powerful new ways and make it even easier to work with documents on the go. Retroactive claims to be able to get iWork '09 running better in High Sierra or Mojave but I haven't tried it. In my experience, High Sierra (10.13) broke several parts of iWork '09, Mojave initially broke more of it, but late updates of Mojave restored it back to the state it was in for High Sierra. I also use that computer for several other occasionally used old Mac applications which won't work in Catalina or later. My solution for occasional use of iWork '09 is to keep an older Mac Mini running macOS Sierra (10.12). Apple isn't likely to port Big Sur's graphics engine changes back to older macOS versions, so this change in Big Sur will still not allow the iWork '09 applications to run properly in a virtual machine. The iWork '09 applications are 32-bit, therefore only work in macOS Mojave (10.14) or earlier. It doesn't change anything for macOS Catalina (10.15) or earlier running a guest. If macOS Big Sur has changes which make it possible to virtualise graphics acceleration in macOS guests, that would apply to macOS Big Sur (or later) running as a guest. The limitation is that macOS running as a guest doesn't have a supported way of virtualising accelerated 3D graphics. The iWork '09 graphics issue has nothing to do with the host macOS. So I think I have seen discussions that under Big Sur graphics acceleration is possible now. Anyone found a solution? Can't we all ask VMWare for help and build up some presure? Aren't we paying customers? Well, at least I am! And things become more and more pressing. I know from various discussions and forums that I am not alone with this problem. Having another spare mac around just to run the legacy 32-bit stuff is not feasible as I am travelling and need to have everything with me. Still running Mojave 10.14.6 on my MacBook Pro, iWork '09 mostly still working. With Big Sur around the corner I have to upgrade eventually due to security concerns (and what happens when I need to eventually replace my Mac with a newer model?). So it seems that the system *is* capable to display the window's content. Interesting however is the fact then when I open a pages doc the white window momentarily displays the content when I toggle outline mode back and forth. But no, iWork (Pages et al) does not display anything. So my solution was to install el Capitan into VMWare Fusion and have my legacy sw running there. The successor to iWork '09 has lost over 100 features that I need (eg mail merge). All my company's documents and work processes are built around iWork. However I still rely on iWork '09 which is 32 bit only. Since a good year now Apple has removed 32-bit support from its OS (Catalina). Eight (8!) years later and the issue is still open.
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