Re: OneNote

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Posted by stephenz
2005-03-22 09:23:36

Alexander > 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.

I agree completely with this characterization of MS. They do very little, if any, innovation there. I do think, however, that OneNote may be an exception to this. It is unlike any other piece of software I’ve seen for the Windows environment (maybe they stole the idea from something like NoteTaker from the Mac world). This isn’t to say that it is a great piece of software. Far from it. There are clearly limitations to its functions that must certainly have been intentional to keep people from choosing OneNote over Word, perhaps. But the GUI is unique in my experience. The ability to flag and categorize individual paragraphs is handy and an unusual feature. The ease of clipping text and images is unrivaled in my experience. That it has modest meta-outlining capability also puts it in a class by itself.

Steve Z.

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