Microsoft sounds OneNote
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
In mid-2003, AT about the same time as Office 11 is slated to ship, Microsoft will launch its OneNote application for capturing, organizing, and collaboratively sharing information. Chris Pratley, group program manager for authoring services for Microsoft Office, met with InfoWorld Test Center Director Steve Gillmor to discuss OneNote and its features.
InfoWorld: What was the idea and impetus behind developing OneNote?
Pratley: OneNote is an application that we started thinking of almost two years ago [to] help people deal with little scraps of information and things that they get that are not full-blown documents. In doing the planning of Office 11, we reorganized around scenarios rather than around applications. Since [my group] was thinking about authoring, we were trying to think about the whole process of authoring rather than just the act of writing a document. That includes collecting raw information [and] organizing it to prepare to write some document.