Suggestion: OneNote for OS X

[Michael Gerbasio]

Hi,
Not sure if this is the correct place to send a suggestion, if anyone has an
email/web page please pass it along. Having OneNote on the Mac would be
great as I'm using both Vista and OS X.

Regards-Michael G.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

That's a popular request but would probably have to be a lot MORE popular
(I.e. lot more potential sales of such a product) before MS would invest the
resources needed to make it happen.

In the meantime I think you're going to be stuck running OneNote under
Windows in Parallels or Bootcamp on your OSX box.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/onenote.htm

 

[Michael Gerbasio]

Thanks Ben. I just loaded up VMware Fusion and I'm using it to run Project.
I'm going to try the OneNote demo next.

Regards-Michael G.

 

[John Waller]

That's a popular request but would probably have to be a lot MORE popular

(I.e. lot more potential sales of such a product) before MS would invest
the resources needed to make it happen.

They already sell Office 2008 for OSX.

Why not OneNote?

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

It's a very difficult and complicated port because OneNote relies pretty
heavily on services provided by Windows for which there aren't direct
analogs in OSX.

It would require a pretty significant rewrite of the app - which is
expensive and resource intensive - and for a questionable return; especially
now that all modern Macs can run Windows and it's possible, with VM
utilities, to run even a single Windows app under OSX in a VM.

So it's pretty questionable that they'd ever sell enough copies of it to
justify the cost of development.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/onenote.htm

 

[Lee]

I think there will be a lot more demand for it on OS X than MS expects. I
mean, they were surprised by the popularity of OneNote in the first place.


I Use OneNote on PCs, I have clients who are using OneNote on PC's and Macs
(parallels) but the main problem is, the Mac users are using Office for Mac,
and having to transfer the documents back and forth between the Mac and their
virtual XP machine, which defeats the purpose of using OneNote at all.

Whether MS likes it or not, it will continue to be a mixed OS environment,
and to remain competitive, they will need to support both. Office for Mac
proves it.

 

[waxwing1]

I use NoteBook from Circus Ponies for the Mac for my personal use. Evernote
is also excellent and syncs across devices including
Win/Mac/iPhone/Blackberry/Web, etc.

At work, however, we've standardized on the Windows platform so OneNote is
more likely to be adopted.