Microsoft goes to college with OneNote
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft is expected to announce on Monday that it will sell a discounted academic version of OneNote, its new application for note-taking and information management. The version will be available to teachers and students for $49, compared with the standard price of $199, and its release will be accompanied by a marketing campaign focused on college students, a key target market for the new application.
OneNote, one of two new applications included in Office System, Microsoft's newly renamed line of workplace productivity applications, is being positioned as an adjunct to Word's word processing program. OneNote is designed for taking notes and organizing them with information from other sources, such as Web pages. The program automatically saves notes as they're input and offers several options for organizing and browsing notes, which can later be incorporated into final Word documents.