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The best version of OneNote on Windows

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William Devereux
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Apr 18, 2018
The below article is out of date as of Nov 4 th 2019. Please check out this article for the latest OneNote announcement.   We’re incredibly lucky to have millions of passionate OneNote users aro...
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Abhimanyu Singh
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May 31, 2018

William Devereux : Repeating my question from here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/The-best-version-of-OneNote-on-Windows/bc-p/187344/highlight/true#M678 , because I am still confused.

 

I am still unable to come to grips with this decision of moving towards the UWP/Win-10 app from a well-established Win32 one. Does it mean that eventually ALL Office Suite applications will move to Win-10/UWP model? Word, Excel, PowerPoint? I mean how will MS Office Suite on Windows look like? A potpourri of Win32 and UWP apps moving towards purely UWP in not so distant future? How will "OneNote for Win-10" be part of larger Office Suite. Or will it not? We use Office 365 Pro Plus CTR. Do you mean that OneNote for Win-10 will become part of this suite? We use ODT to provision/maintain Office Suite for our users. We simply mark exclusions in the XML like this:

 

 <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
     <Language ID="en-us"/>
     <ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath"/>
     <ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner"/>
 </Product>

 

Will we be able to exclude "OneNote for Win-10" similarly? But, then how to include "OneNote 2016 traditional" if it is not bundled? Will it be like the Teams app or "Yammer for Desktop" app, to be installed and maintained separately?