All the apps and services that use Fluid will be able to sync information back and forth at high bandwidth (using the SharePoint Online backend), but the way that shows up in applications will depend on what suits those applications. The way that Fluid will be implemented in Office and other applications such as the Office Canvas is actually a good way of thinking about the two versions of OneNote for Windows. Expect more news and possibly a demo at the 2020 Build conference in May. OneNote will have a preview of the Fluid framework 'some time next year' Hodes said. The main impetus for the decision to merge the OneNote codebase to take advantage of these Office features was the Fluid framework, which is about fast collaboration, chunking up information and tools like ink - all core OneNote tenets. But the plan is that, over time, all the versions of OneNote will get the same features. Sometimes a feature may come to OneNote 2016 or OneNote 10 before it reaches the other Windows version. Instead, over the next 18 months Microsoft will be able to bring the advances in OneNote 10 to OneNote 2016 - and put the same new features into both of them. That doesn't mean the two versions of OneNote will merge, though, any more than that the Mac, iOS and Android versions will become the same applications.

By early 2020, Microsoft hopes to have fully merged the code base for the two Windows versions. So while development is restarting on OneNote 2016, OneNote for Windows 10 is still being actively developed. 'It's not any specific endpoint or version.

'When we say 'one place for all your notes across your whole life', that one place is OneNote,' Hodes added. The message from OneNote Principal Product Manager Ben Hodes is that this is about choice: 'your notes your way,' as he put it. The announcement at the 2019 Ignite conference that not only was OneNote 2016 getting the same support lifecycle as the rest of Office 2019 (until October 2023, with extended support until October 2025) and going back into the default Office install (in March 2020), but that the desktop and Store app codebases were merging caused a certain amount of confusion as well.ĭid that mean the Store version of OneNote was dead instead? No. OneNote on the desktop was never 'dead' because it never came out of support, but the way that Office 2019 uninstalled OneNote 2016 made it look less 'mainstream' and more 'legacy'.

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