Deprecated Microsoft Finally Kills OneNote for Windows 10

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It was once the future of OneNote, but it quickly became the past, and now it’s being led out to pasture, albeit belatedly.

“OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025,” a note to the Microsoft 365 Message Center explains. “Organizations should migrate to OneNote on Windows (OneNote M365) to ensure continued access to new features, security updates, and improved performance.”

OneNote for Windows 10 began life as OneNote MX (“Metro eXperience”), a Metro-style app that quietly betrayed the Office team’s limited support for Windows 8. At the time, OneNote MX was a minimalist app that featured a single radical UI innovation, a so-called radial menu that offered context-sensitive commands as needed. It was quickly renamed to OneNote, despite there being a OneNote 2013 in the then-current Office suite. And it was updated to support the Share charm and other features for Windows 8.1. It was the rare example of a great “modern” app–Microsoft had to drop the Metro brand for legal reasons–and by the time Microsoft was shifting to Windows 10, it had inspired the Office team to bring its full suite to this modern environment, which would now work across PCs, tablets, and phones.

Microsoft Finally Kills OneNote for Windows 10

It was once the future of OneNote, but it quickly became the past, and now it's being led out to pasture, albeit belatedly.

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