OneNote 2016 has had a bit of a bumpy ride in the last few years. Microsoft dropped the desktop version of the note-taking app from the Office 2019 suite of apps, in turn recommending the UWP version.

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It's almost a footnote in the massive amount of news that Microsoft is pumping out on the first day of its biggest conference of the year, but it's bringing OneNote 2016 back from the dead. It's ...

Microsoft is sunsetting OneNote 2016 and gently pushing users to OneNote for Windows 10. The change relieves Microsoft from having to develop two versions of the same app, but it tasks users of ...

Microsoft is planning to stop building its OneNote desktop application, with the current OneNote 2016 product being the last of its kind. Instead, Microsoft is putting its development efforts behind ...

Microsoft is making big changes to OneNote for Windows: The Win32 desktop app will no longer be included in Microsoft Office. Instead, OneNote for Windows 10, the UWP app, will be included in both ...

OneNote has evolved over the years from a simple note-taking app to a sophisticated collaboration, organization, and project management tool. The recent OneNote 2016 update adds some polish to ...