The Future of OneNote

While Office 2003 is a powerful extension of one of the most feature-rich and mature applications of all time, OneNote is the introduction of a totally new type of application. This means that although OneNote will continue to be closely linked to future versions of Office, it will also have a trajectory of its own consistent with the typical growth of a 1.0 product. There are no firm plans defining future releases, but it seems reasonable to hope that Microsoft will round out the feature set with ease-of-use tweaks responding to user reaction to version 1; features for the developer community such as APIs and XML data structures; and integration extended to other applications such as Microsoft Project. Because OneNote runs especially well on the Tablet PC platform, it's also a good guess that as time goes by OneNote will add new Tablet-oriented features. Finally, it is reasonable to expect that we will see new features for user communities in which OneNote is especially well received.