Microsoft's Office Team Steps Onto iOS With 'OneNote'

[talmy]

Call me back when there is OneNote for OS X. I'm not going to be gathering info and taking notes on my iOS device.

Currently I use OneNote on Windows at work and Circus Ponies Notebook on my Macs. I actually like Notebook's organization better, however it isn't very responsive and has what I feel are awkward keyboard commands.

 

[Jaro65]

Evernote forever!

Similar sentiments here. I used to love OneNote as it truly is a great product. But, I've switched to Evernote a couple of years ago. Now I have all my notes with me, whether I'm on my Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Or at any other computer with web access....

 

[Cougarcat]

Well, this was my OneNote experience:

1. Made an account.
2. Had to verify it. Went into Mail, clicked the link. Told that I couldn't view the page as it was "PC Only". Clicked on the "PC" link. Account verified.
3. Launched OneNote. It's stuck at non-retina purple startup screen.

Just curious...what more can you do? A/V out perhaps??

Yes.

 

[mKTank]

Just tried it...

Frankly it's pretty gimped compared to the solution on WP7. Also on WP7 there's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as OneNote. So no, this isn't a display of a lack of confidence. They didn't work so hard to make this app by the looks of it.

 

[elppa]

Not only are you wrong you are AS wrong as you actually can be.

No I am not wrong. Read my reply.

 

[vespagirl]

+1

+2

 

[blahblah100]

I believe “owned” in the correct term in internet parlance, no?

"Owned?" Dude, it's not 1843, nobody owns anybody.

Why is it that whenever I get asked this question it is usually by people with of less clue than me?


Because OneNote (a proprietary technology which is highly regarded) is no longer a Windows Phone exclusive.


Every platform has a web browser. It is no advantage to Mac OS X to have a web browser.

The parellel would be if Garage Band or iMovie were released for Windows.

Only Windows and Windows Phone 7 had OneNote. Well, until today. You really think that Microsoft would be doing this if Windows Phone had anything like parity with iOS and Android?



Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

You can view it any way you like, my Safari analogy stands, even if you disagree. It's the same with iTunes. Only the Mac had iPods and iTunes, and Apple released Windows versions. Was this a vote of no confidence on the part of the hardware and iTunes team? After all, sales of the iPod skyrocketed after a Windows version was released. Cross-platform development is not a vote of no confidence, it's revenue and market share growth for a particular product?

As far as one vice president (at the time) disagreeing, that is not indicative of a company against a form factor, especially in light of every other part of the company being behind the technology, even within the Office division. As another poster stated, OneNote was developed for the tablet pc.

Further evidence from the article you provided "So once again, even though our tablet had the enthusiastic support of top management and had cost hundreds of millions to develop, it was essentially allowed to be sabotaged"

Does this mean that if Jonathan Ive came out tomorrow and said HDMI ports were terrible, it would be indicative of the hardware division of Apple would be against HDMI? Or would it simply mean that one manager in the division is against it? Pardon me for believing that one person out of a company of 95,000 employees, who is not the CEO, provides no indication of the beliefs of the other 94,999 employees.

 

[gorjan]

Remote, Apple Store, Find iPhone and iBooks are all free from Apple and none came with the iPhone. When that poster said products, I believe they meant apps. I can't think of an App that Apple charges for and none have ads.

Aha, ok. I agree, all their apps are free and without ads.

I highly doubt the costs of producing these apps are built into the iPhone's pricing.

I'm pretty sure the money Apple makes on iPhones pays for development of their free apps.

 

[LegendKillerUK]

Just make an American iTunes account.

 

[deputy_doofy]

I didn't read through every post, but Microsoft could certainly tip the favor to Apple (the irony) by only releasing these Office products for iOS (over Android). Don't know if that's their plan, but thought that kind of interesting.

 

[blahblah100]

Remote, Apple Store, Find iPhone and iBooks are all free from Apple and none came with the iPhone. When that poster said products, I believe they meant apps. I can't think of an App that Apple charges for and none have ads. I highly doubt the costs of producing these apps are built into the iPhone's pricing.

What about Pages or Numbers (granted they are iPad apps)? They charge for iMovie. And to be fair, I don't believe that Find my iPhone has always been free.

 

[Tilpots]

I'm pretty sure the money Apple makes on iPhones pays for development of their free apps.

The only Apple app I've ever read about it's creation is the Remote App. Apparently it was just a guy at Apple who came up with and implemented his idea. As far as the other apps go, I have no idea. But during the quarterly conference calls, I've never heard mention of dollars being funneled to an app department. They do however use the generic "R&D" term for how the money's spent.

 

[Razeus]

How does this compare to Evernote.

 

[LagunaSol]

i thought the free version of evernote had reduced functionality. wouldn't you need the premium edition to compare to onenote?

I think Evernote premium mainly adds capacity (higher monthly upload data limit) and provides for more types of file attachments. And no ads. Worth the $5 a month for me for sure.

How does this compare to Evernote.

Evernote isn't Microsoft, so there's one big plus in the Evernote column in my book.

 

[mpetrides]

Live Login Error--why?

Downloaded the app, tried to login, got an error; "Login failed, error: 400"

Anyone else? I tried to login at live.com and my account works fine.

Exactly the same problem here. Even tried to reset password. Still no go, despite that logging on to Live with my Mac works fine. Suggestions anyone?

 

[Razeus]

finally got the damn thing to sync. Now I can play around.

 

[Steve121178]

See!

Microsoft is still good for...............nothing. I guess they're just going to have to rely on their office suites to help them stay out of the red. Good luck!

Why can't they just make a full Office App for iOS?

Stay out of the red? Do you know how much money MS make?

 

[nutmac]

I guess I am in the minority, but I hate Evernote. Text entry is awful, with poor UI and text formatting issues. The website is equally ugly, displaying my notes in strange jaggy font.

That said, I am not sure if OneNote is better thanks to persistent login error.

 

[mpetrides]

>>>finally got the damn thing to sync. Now I can play around.

But would you trust it not to fail at synching just when you need it most? I probably would not--not right now anyway.

 

[LagunaSol]

I guess I am in the minority, but I hate Evernote. Text entry is awful, with poor UI and text formatting issues.

I agree, they definitely need to beef up their editing and formatting tools. I really wish I could more easily capture web pages in their entirety in their original format like I could with SOHO Notes (which I finally dumped due to persistent bugs and syncing shortcomings).

I really need a better way to send complete web pages to Evernote from the iPhone/iPad.

That said, I still find Evernote to be a phenomenal tool and use it every day. Their folks are great too.

The website is equally ugly, displaying my notes in strange jaggy font.

That I have never noticed before. Are you using Safari on Mac?

 

[shervieux]

Hoping for the future

I am a Mobile Noter user. Glad to see that MS is creating their own app. Hopefully this means that OneNote for OSx is right around the corner.

I think MS also need to start selling their apps separately for OSX like they do for Windows. I need Word, Excel - but not Powerpoint nor outlook; and will be needing OneNote when / if it finally comes out.

When OneNote comes out for OSx, things I would like to see with having both the OSX and iOS versions.

1. Syncing of notebooks directly through itunes. or wifi. Mobile Noter is great, that if I make changes on one device - I can sync it back to the PC and then to the other device.

2. Better be like the Windows version to make OneNote users moving to macs - happy.

12 gb of notebooks just waiting to go mac bound. Would be too much work to convert to Circus Ponies (CP), Evernote, or something else. Plus I have been using OneNote since 2006 - so I am very used to it. Now that CP is out on iOS, I think OneNote on Mac and syncing through itunes or wifi better be around the corner - if MS wants to stay competitive.

MS will sell millions of copies.

 

[bojennett]

Microsoft Sucks!

My buddy and I downloaded it, and couldn't log in. "error 400". He eventually got in, I haven't. Their servers are overloaded, apparently.

Can't think of a worse way to launch it. These morons couldn't hit the water if they fell out of a boat.

 

[res1233]

Just curious...what more can you do? A/V out perhaps??

Someone post a dock connector pin list for our friend over here!

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I think the big news here is that there's a version of OneNote that runs on OS X. Hopefully the desktop version isn't far behind!

 

[rtdunham]

i'll get it when...

i'll get it when an OSX app shows up on the App Store, too. Looks like a well designed app for iOS.