Running Mathcad with Windows 11

[Mko]

Windows 11 will be released as early as next month.  Has anyone done some testing of the existing versions of Mathcad (i.e. MC15, Prime 3-7) to identify issues under Win 11.  Personally, I have a perpetual academic license for MC Prime 3.1, and as a retiree, I am loathe buy a subscription version.  

Furthermore, I have had to reinstall MC Prime 3.1 several times and it has never been an easy task.  Unless I am reasonably certain that an upgrade to Win 11 will not be an issue for Mathcad Prime 3.1, I will simply stay with Win10.

thoughts?
Mike

[o.svahn]

Prime 7 and Mathcad 15 works fine with Windows 11 for me. What´s not working is Excel  component in Prime 7 but works fully in Mathcad 15. I was using Office 365 latest version when testing!

Regards

Owe   

[Mko]

Owe,

That’s good to know.  I am assuming that you are running one of the pre-release versions of win 11.

For me, there is still a concern as to whether Prime 3.1 will work, or whether there will be issues with license management.

thanks for the quick reply

mike

[o.svahn]

Hello Mike

yes - I´m a Windows Insider  and I tested an early  version of win 11 during my 30 day trial of Prime 7 ! Don´t know anything about Prime 3.1 !

kudos

Owe

[Mko]

Owe,

Thanks again.  I was hoping that someone from PTC would reply as well, given that Mathcad is a Windows product.

Regarding your testing, did you need to do a complete reinstall of Mathcad after migration from Win 10 to Win 11, or did mathcad move as part of the migration to win 11.

mike

[o.svahn]

Mike

just to upgrade  windows from 10 to 11 does not  inpact any of your installed applications - if you do a clean install of win 11 means that you have to reinstall all your apps !!

regards

Owe

[DJNewman · Accepted solution]

All I can really officially say is that PTC hasn't certified any Mathcad product for Windows 11, so any possible issues is just a risk.

[Mko]

Thanks.

anyone from PTC care to comment?

mike

[VladimirN]

By the way, for Creo there is such a document available - "Creo Future Platform Support Summary": https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/7D1BD5F82F7B483C90454DE134F29D8E.ashx?sc_lang=en 

[ppal]

My problem may be the other way - will future Prime run on windows 10!

Can't upgrade to 11 - no TPM chip.

We all have our problems.

[MartinHanak]

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@ppal wrote:

My problem may be the other way - will future Prime run on windows 10!

Can't upgrade to 11 - no TPM chip.

We all have our problems.

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Hi,

according to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro page, Retirement Date of Windows 10 is Oct 14, 2025. I expect that Mathcad will run on Windows 10 until this date.

[VladimirN]

Next release in March this year - Mathcad Prime 8.0 is certified to run on the newest Windows operating system, Windows 11 (version 21H2).

[Mko]

Vladimir,

that is good to know, but as I explained at the beginning of this thread, as a retired guy, buying the new version of Mathcad is not on my radar.  Furthermore, my desktop doesn’t meet Win 11 system requirements either, so I’ll be on Win10 a while longer.

thanks

mike

[FD_1244557]

I have been a mathcad user since Mathcad for windows 3.1.  It's been so long that maybe it was Mathcad 3.1?  Not sure.  I have been using Mathcad 15 for many years.  I recently purchased a Windows 11 Laptop and Mathcad will not install on it.  The install claims that it requires NET 3.5 and when it provides a link to Microsoft for that install.  However, the file is no longer available.  The install will not go any further without the old NET files.

Does anyone have a workaround for this?  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Frank DiJoseph

[Mko]

Frank,

Sorry, I cannot help with your inquiry. Mathcad 15 is now a pretty old version and has been superseded by Mathcad Prime (current revision is 10). I could not get my academic version of mathcad prime 3.1 to install under windows 11 either and now use mathcad prime 10 express.

mike

[VladimirN]

"Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5":
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21 
https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/0/3/703455ee-a747-4cc8-bd3e-98a615c3aedb/dotNetFx35setup.exe