OneNote Included in All Versions of Office 2010
The announcement introducing Microsoft Office 2010 got a lot of attention, especially information about the Web Apps. Office is a big money-maker for Microsoft, and every new major version is an attention-grabber. One little fact fell by the wayside during all of the hoopla, however: OneNote is to be included in all versions of Office 2010.
This is big news for OneNote users who previously had to buy a premium Office suite to get it, or pay extra for OneNote. The OneNote Blog gives us the straight scoop:
I thought you all would like to know that OneNote is now included in all Office editions! That means no matter what Office box you buy or what you company purchases OneNote will be on the disc! I remember when I first started on the team OneNote 2003 was a stand alone version of and even though we were a part of Office but wasn’t in the box. I would tell people what product I worked on and people would ask “is OneNote in standard?” or “I have pro I don’t see OneNote”. Then when we found that we were included in the Home & Student and Enterprise editions we were overjoyed and excited to be in the box. But now I can tell people that no matter what version of Office they buy they will have OneNote! I feel like we have really come along a long way from a standalone app to being a core part of the Office experience.
The OneNote team is understandably excited about this “promotion” at Microsoft. OneNote is a fantastic application that is not promoted heavily by the folks at Redmond. Maybe this means more people will get exposed to OneNote.
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Hopefully this will make the Evernote developers add back the local image indexing (or recognition) feature they took away, in future Evernote versions.
Yes a good program, but it was one of the few apps included in the Home and Student 2007 bundle. The slightly bizarre thing then was that Onenote was there but Outlook wasn’t.
Well, students are keeping notes, printing online materials, but they aren’t calling meetings, nor as dependent on email as professionals.
But I agree, I’d have liked to have seen Outlook in there.
Rethinking that, I know I connect notes to Outlook calendar items, create tasks while I’m working in OneNote. I agree, the two should be together on every edition. You’re absolutely right.
Any word on a Mac version of OneNote?
Nope, and I would be stunned if they produced one after all these years. :( What Microsoft fails to realize is their failure to produce a Mac version of OneNote has helped drive people (me included) to EverNote. I need to be able to work with all my notes on both platforms and that means EverNote.
I think maybe they’d be more inclined to do it if Macs had a decent inking platform.
Not going to happen, IMHO.
Mac even has an inking system, but the tablet market is a very small niche use of OneNote so this is not even an excuse.
I kind of think Office 2010 and how poor the Mac office 2008 is, may help end the dominance of Office on the Mac (and possibly in general). Once a good excel replacement exists there will be little reason to have Office on the Mac.
Moving up a plateau toward Nirvana would be the inclusion of OneNote 2010 in Mac’s Office 2010 version on the new Apple Tablet PC….. (contented sigh)
They’ve got to promote it more. It’s on every computer in my community college, and I don’t think there are five of us that use it. The students, who would benefit most, don’t know what it is.
I’m really glad OneNote is getting some visibility in the package. Hopefully its presence will be noticed by users, but what’s nice for us OneNote users is that we can start emailing those notes to non-users and they’ll see what they’re missing! :)
Jeepers, I hope (1) the file format doesn’t change, as 2007 made the files exclusive of the earlier version, and (2) you can password protect.
I’d think there are relatively few people using Evernote on Mac and PC platforms together.
I am pleased to see OneNote being recognised as an essential tool for all potential Office users (I’m trying to stay positive here, so work with me folks). |goodness it needs a boost given the effectiveness of Evernote. I have to confess I make much more use of EverNote, in lsrge part because of it’s completely superior Windows Mobile platform and easy synching across machines. I do still use OneNote, particularly for writing notes and recording at the same time.
It’s about time Microsoft did something different.
Until OneNote syncs ith my iphone I’ll still have a place for Evernote. And juntil Evernote allow mixed notes I’ll need onenote.