MS Office Beta Notes

This is a side-blog where I intend to keep all of my notes from Beta testing new versions of Office. This will keep them all in one place for future reference. I started this with Office 2003, and am bringing it back for the 2007 version. This is not an official Microsoft site, this is just the ramblings of one IT guy.

Monday, April 28, 2003

OneNote quick questions

Having taken notes with pen/paper for 30 years, it's a hard habit to break. :) Are people going to be able to take notes as quickly and comfortably as the old reliable pen/paper? Will the presence of a laptop/tablet prove too burdensome in some situations? For some types of business people?

OneNote has some potential for note-taking on the road, in meetings, or on the phone. For it to truly take off on Tablets, and maybe be the thing that will eventually get Tablets to really take off, we need better handwriting recognition than that I've seen. Are we going to get that from MS?

How well does OneNote integrate with the other applications? How easy is it to drop something into a Word document, for example? An email?

Find the answers to these questions, and more, as we delve into this further. :)