MicrosoftI too worry about what will become of OneNote. I actually use both versions as they each have strengths. If they put the desktop feature to Insert/Screen Clipping into OneNote for Windows 10, and allowed it to open local notebooks, I could probably settle on using that version exclusively.
I am confused as to what Microsoft is thinking with many of the changes they are making to their products. One thing is certain, they are either not listening to user feedback, or they are actively ignoring it. If they wanted a Miro competitor, they could simply have made that a separate product. as clearly, the shared codebase between the new version and the old version of Whiteboard is negligible to non-existent. The Snipping Tool in Windows 10 supports the ability to <ESC> the capture, pull down a menu and hover over the item to select, and then invoke the snip with <Ctrl><PrtSc>...amazingly useful for capturing graphics for instructions. In Windows 11, not so much. Windows 11 itself seems to require at least two or three clicks to accomplish the same task that can be accomplished in one click in Windows 10. Search has been almost entirely mucked up.
I would love to see someone from Microsoft respond and explain why they are making these decisions. Just not another useless video by a bunch of designers discussing what a wonderful job they have done. Perhaps, Microsoft UI Designers need to be longtime Windows users, so they have some idea of where the users are. The other issue is telemetry. Because more people do certain things a certain way, that does not imply it is the best way to do that. It means it is the way more people have found to do something. Perhaps the small percentage doing things differently have found a better, though less discoverable, way to accomplish the task.
