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POWER UP Your OneNote PowerToy Contest
"Show the world how you Power Up OneNote with the add-on functionality of PowerToys. It's your opportunity to influence the future of OneNote. It's your chance to wow a global audience. And it's your shot at winning one of five Toshiba Portégé M200 Tablet PCs."

I can't tell you how excited I am by this; and not just because I get to help out in the judging. :)  Kudos to Roan for all the hard work he's done in putting this contest together.

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  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2005
    Hi,

    This is very exciting!

    Just to be clear, can you perchance verify that using y'all's managed API is on or off limits? The rules seem pretty clear about not allowing code from "other sources", but was wondering if this somehow slips in under the wire...
  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2005
    Nope, by all means; use of the managed OneNoteImporter is totally in-limits.

    Cheers!

    Donovan
  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2005
    Hi Tom,

    (Sorry for not responding to you earlier, but I somehow failed to see that you had commented. I'm not used to people actually reading this stuff I write. ;-)

    I agree with you that importing content into OneNote is only one of the many things that developers and users should be capable of. And, as you so eloquently argue, it's probably not the most exciting feature to some, but it does cover a broad number of scenarios that /are/ important, and more importantly, constitued an ideal first step for our minimal SP1 update. But I hope you won't assume that means that we're done! Cause we most certainly are not.

    I know you guys are anxious for another major release, and trust me, we're anxious as well! After those long, hard hours we've got a lot to show you, and we hope you'll be impressed. But writing good software takes time; particularly software that is performant, stable, and secure. (And let's face it, that's one of the best un-advertised features that OneNote offers -- it provides a place to put your content without you ever having to worry about it "eating" your data, crashing while you're in the middle of a meeting, etc.)

    I'm not going to comment on releasing OneNote as Open Source, as it'd be a long debate and probably wouldn't get us anywhere. (For one thing, I'm the wrong guy to convince. :) But I do know that there's a lot that Microsoft and the OneNote team can learn from open source projects, and we do hear you on this.

    Never fear, I won't throw yours (or any other) comments away. Discussion is good, and essential when producing any product that you hope to be useful.

    Cheers,

    Donovan
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    November 25, 2007
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