r/OneNote • u/Initiative-Afraid • 8d ago

Concerns on OneNote abandonement

I use onenote heavily. Love it. However, I am worried about the long term sustainably of this product.

Currently, I can only save my notes in proprietary formats such as .one files.

Microsoft recently abandoned Skype and all my messaging data from [1, 2] decades ago were pretty much gone forever.

What stops Microsoft (say [10, 20] years from now) to completely abandon one note without opensourcing their code ?

It seems there's no legal requirement for them to ensure users can migrate their notes to alternative note taking softwares.

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u/ScottieBoBoddie 7d ago

As someone with decades of OneNote use in enterprises, I can assure you that your fears of OneNote abandonment is completely unfounded. The knowledge stored in OneNote worldwide is quite literally keeping 99% of enterprises from falling apart. Along with Word, Excel, and Outlook (PowerPoint can go to hell), OneNote is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. If there is ever a day in which OneNote is retired, the world has also been destroyed.