Microsoft OneNote sounds new tune

CNET News.com

February 20, 2003, 12:18 PM PT:



Developers and enterprise customers are getting their first glimpse of OneNote, one of two new Office 2003 applications that Microsoft accidentally posted–then quickly removed–from the Web on Wednesday. Microsoft inadvertently released a new test version of OneNote, along with copies of the other new program, InfoPath, and the entire Office 2003 Professional suite.

The Redmond, Wash.-based company posted the Office 2003 betas to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) around noon Wednesday, but pulled the software a little more than six hours later following an inquiry from CNET News.com.

The accidental posting pre-empted the scheduled March release of Office 2003 Beta 2.

Microsoft released an earlier Office 2003 beta, then code-named Office 11, in October to about 12,000 testers. But only a small number of testers received copies of OneNote, which is similar to a word processor but is intended for quick handling of short notes as opposed to long multipart documents. Wednesday’s posting potentially greatly expands the number of people outside Microsoft working with the new software.

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