OneNote for Windows 10 support clock counts down
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2025/08/22/the_support_clock_counts_down/
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The OneNote brand has become a little fragmented over the years. Since its launch more than 20 years ago, the note-taking application has undergone multiple iterations, evolving from a standalone product to part of Office, and then serving as evidence that Microsoft truly cared about the [1]Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on Windows 10, where a UWP version of OneNote came preinstalled.
Microsoft has been banging on about the newer OneNote on Windows app for a while now, and this week [2]warned that OneNote for Windows 10 would be shuffling off into the sunset alongside support for many versions of Windows 10. As of October 14, there will be only one supported version – OneNote on Windows.
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There'll be no Microsoft 365-style support [4]reprieve for OneNote for Windows 10, either. Although some versions of Windows 10 remain supported, with users able to purchase Extended Security Updates (ESU) for the operating system, OneNote for Windows 10 support will really and finally end.
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Microsoft said, "We're consolidating our efforts into a single, more powerful OneNote on Windows app.
"This streamlined direction will help us deliver new features faster, ensure long-term support, and provide a foundation for future innovation in OneNote."
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The company also threatened that there would be "Copilot-powered note generation" for the note-taking app.
While the impending end of support for OneNote for Windows 10 should not come as too much of a surprise for administrators – the application itself has been displaying a terse message warning that the end was in sight for a while now – the warning that there is less than 60 days of support remaining is a stark one.
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Still, it's not as if organizations that use OneNote for Windows 10 had any other issues to worry about on October 14. We're sure administrators will have plenty of bandwidth to deal with users complaining that their notes have suddenly become read-only as they work to ensure any Windows 10 stragglers remain supported. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/windows_10_dev_comment/
[2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/onenote-for-windows-10-support-is-ending/4445230
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So they will basically hold your notes ransom. Nice. I'm so glad and thankful to my own intellect and curiosity that I jumped ships during XP times and switched to Linux ...
I used the Wiki feature in Teams to collaborate, it was not a real Wiki but it was simple, useful, and was dropped - the replacement was OneNote for Windows 10. OneNote allowed collaboration in a more clunky way and now it seems that could also be dropped and replaced with New OneNote (with fewer features, just like New Outlook).
What nobody at Microsoft realises is nobody cares about Microsoft software itself, they just want to get their work done. In the dim and distant past that was possible but now my work is ephemeral with constant pointless deprecations as everything is re-written worse in Microsoft's version of Electron (WebView2).
Another useful app destroyed
I used OneNote quite a lot in the early days (the version that came with Office 2010) which was genuinely useful to keep track of my project noteas. I typically might have 6-7 jobs on the go at any time and it was useful to be able to pull up my notes during meetings. The enshittification started when M$ stopped allowing local notebooks and forced everything to be saved on OneDrive. That was the point where I stayed with the 2010 version as I can't and don't store client confidential information in the "cloud".
Thankfully I still run the 2010 version with local data files despite M$ nagging me to "upgrade".
Re: Another useful app destroyed
later, non free versions continue to have local notebooks. im using the office19 version
One note? B flat.
I always wondered what OneNote was
Too late to find out now... oh dear, how sad.