Re: OneNote

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 3010

Posted by sub
2005-03-21 17:07:04

[Steve Z.: Can’t the biggest software corporation in the world find someone without a conflict of interest who has good things to say about OneNote?]

In fact, the biggest software corporation in the world is not very good in promoting original products and opening new markets; it is however great in exploiting the ones other have opened and ultimately monopolising them, starting from very humble offerings.

Think: From GEM and Apple OS to Microsoft Windows / From WordPerfect to Word / From 1-2-3 and Quattro to Excel / From Harvard Graphics to Powerpoint / From dBase and Paradox to Access / From Lotus Organizer to Outlook / Last but not least, from Netscape to Internet Explorer.

Remember how non-competitive were the first versions of Microsoft’s products? Did anyone ever use Windows 1.0 or 2.0 without regretting it?

Enter OneNote. Microsoft recognises the need for integrated information management. InfoPath is the developer’s product and OneNote may become the home version, gradually building up features until the two meet in bloatwareland.

The only trouble is, in the outliner market there is no significant market leader to compete against yet; the market is too fragmented. Perhaps M$ should let the modern outliners like UltraRecall and EverNote build up momentum and then go for it with something “better”.

alx

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