Microsoft says this aligns with Office 2019 support dates, but doesn’t mention that Office 2019 support was deliberately shortened to 7 years from the supposedly ‘fixed’ 10 year support policy. Extended support continues for another two years. Mainstream support is now available until 10 October 2023. The program would get no new features, only security fixes OneNote for Windows until 2023īack in April 2018 Microsoft announced the end of OneNote 2016 for Windows, the desktop app. The future of OneNote for Windows still isn’t entirely clear, but it seems that the full featured desktop version is back! It’s even got a new feature, albeit just the Dark Mode already in other Office programs. Shouldn’t all businesses be focused on customers?

Microsoft is putting a gloss over it, boasting “On being customer obsessed’ as if that’s something new or worthy of praise. These recent changes are very welcome, but should not have been necessary. The announcements amount to a 180° reversal of past poor, short-sighted management decisions. We’ll also explain the strange case of two OneNote for Windows. The desktop and app versions merging into a single codebase. OneNote desktop program gets extended life and a promotion. OneNote for Windows has a better future after some reverse-course announcements from Microsoft.

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