OneNote 2016 is rising from the grave and getting new features

[zanderthunder]

 

It’s been a while since Microsoft stopped adding new features to OneNote 2016. When Office 2019 was released, there was no OneNote 2019, as users were directed to the UWP app. OneNote 2016 was officially in maintenance mode, with Microsoft only providing the odd fix here and there.

 

In an unexpected move though, that’s actually changing. Microsoft announced at its Ignite 2019 conference that it’s actually going to be extending mainstream support for OneNote 2016, and it’s not just doing that in name; the company will actually be adding new features.

 

The first new feature that you’re going to see is dark mode, something that most other platforms have received, and that includes OneNote for Windows 10. Microsoft also says that it’s going to be working to add other collaboration experiences - such as @-mentions - that you find in other Office apps.

 

It’s unclear what this actually means for OneNote for Windows 10. Choosing to support OneNote 2016 is great for users on older versions of Windows, but Windows 7 support ends in January. When OneNote for Windows 10 originally debuted, there were other Office UWP apps, which ended up becoming Office Mobile. OneNote evolved into something completely different though, as the main version of the app on Windows 10. Of course, we’ll have to see if that continues to be the case moving forward.

 

Source: OneNote 2016 is rising from the grave and getting new features (via Neowin)

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OneNote 2016 will once again be installed by default with Office 365 and Office 2019

 

 

It's almost a footnote in the massive amount of news that Microsoft is pumping out on the first day of its biggest conference of the year, but it's bringing OneNote 2016 back from the dead. It's adding new features for the first time since it was put in maintenance mode last year.

 

Interestingly, the company also announced today that the desktop OneNote app will once again be included with new Office 365 installations, and it will be included in Office 2019 for the first time. It was back in April 2018 that Microsoft said it wouldn't include OneNote 2016 with Office 2019, saying that users should use OneNote for Windows 10 instead.

 

But it would seem that OneNote for Windows 10 is falling into the background, as OneNote 2016 gets resurrected. Today's news is somewhat unprecedented, as Microsoft has worked pretty hard on the messaging that you should ditch OneNote 2016 for the OneNote UWP app.

 

OneNote 2016 will start being include in new installations of Office 365 and Office 2019 beginning in March 2020. Microsoft says that the new support date for the product is October 23, 2023 for mainstream support and October 14, 2025 for extended support, where previously support was to end in 2020.

 

Source: OneNote 2016 will once again be installed by default with Office 365 and Office 2019 (via Neowin)

 

p/s: This news is posted on the same thread (since the news is related to the main thread) , instead of posting on a new thread.