The auto update mechanism of the Microsoft Store was also praised. Basis was this article (now outdated) from Microsoft, where they wrote:īeginning with the launch of Office 2019 later this year, OneNote for Windows 10 will replace OneNote 2016 as the default OneNote experience for both Office 365 and Office 2019.Īs a reason for choosing OneNote for Windows 10, Microsoft stated that the app has improved performance and reliability and is supported by a brand new sync engine (which they will also offer for Web, Mac, iOS and Android). In my German blog post Microsoft Office 2019 kommt ohne OneNote I had reported in April 2018 about the latest plans of Microsoft regarding OneNote. OneNote 2016: Declared as dead and buried

It was just a lean replacement for the OneNote 2016 Win32 application. But the app was delivered with a poor feature set (my impression) and never got pushed. The OneNote app for Windows 10 was once planned as a killer application (see Microsoft: 'OneNote app will be better than Win32 application').

And there is the Windows 10 OneNote app from the Microsoft store, which, according to Microsoft's will, should set the tone in the future.

The classic desktop Win32 application OneNote 2016, which was released in September 2015 and has a wide range of functions.

There are two variants of the application (see also the screenshot of the start menu above): Since mid-2014 OneNote can be used free of charge on all platforms. OneNote is also available on macOS, Android and iOS. (Start menu with two OneNote apps, Source: Microsoft) But in my books about Microsoft Office 2007 OneNote is already mentioned. I don't know exactly, when OneNote became part of Microsoft Office as a Win32 application.

Microsoft OneNote is a notebook application developed as a 32-bit Win32 application since 2003.

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