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OneNote vs. OneNote for Windows 10
Thanks for your reply. I appreciate your goals. However, please note my comment elsewhere in this topic on why the harmonized version of OneNote is not suitable for my needs. I neither require nor need realtime synchronization for my Office 365 apps. Simple cloud access in order to share between my PC and mobile device is all I require. I neither need nor require background apps like 'Resume' to provide realtime synchronization. I prefer to minimize the number of background, 'always on' processes running on my Windows 11 machine. This includes having a OneNote instance just waiting for me to make a 'quick' note. I neither need nor require supposed AI components like Copilot waiting in the wings to 'assist' me.
By all means, pursue your aspirations of making the best products you can but please allow the supposed enhancements to be optionally enabled, at the discretion of the end user.
FYI, OneNote for Windows 10 was already doing (near realtime) sync and running always in the background, it's just that the background task wasn't visible to you because of the application framework used. That hasn't actually changed (although the sync engine is a little different between the two).
That's true but I routinely end the 'invisible' background task everytime I restart Windows. (I routinely do this with other 'unnecessary' background tasks as well.) As I wrote, I neither need nor require background synchronization of OneNote (and other 365 apps). I have my desktop Windows PC and an Android mobile device. I only ever use one or the other, not both simultaneously.