
The small change, just announced, is that “OneNote for Windows 10” isn’t available from the Microsoft Store if you search for it. OneNote for Windows 10 – not on Microsoft Store
Two apps with the same “OneNote” title in the Microsoft Store. No way for people to easily tell the two apart. Both OneNote apps are available with the heading “OneNote”. Microsoft adds to the confusion in their own Microsoft Store. See Quickly see which OneNote app you have on Windows. Still confused? Don’t blame yourself, it’s a problem of Microsoft’s own making and even Microsoft staff get the two muddled up.
UWP apps were going to be Microsoft’s replacement for all traditional Windows programs but it didn’t work out that way. Despite the name, also works on Windows 11.
No new features and support only until October 2025.
“OneNote for Windows 10” a Universal Windows Platform app. It has all the new and future features plus ongoing support for security and bug fixes. This is the program that’s continuing development.
“OneNote app on Windows” is the standard desktop program (32/64 bit). There are currently TWO OneNote programs that can run on Windows which Microsoft gave confusingly similar names which have changed over time. To quickly recap for sensible people who haven’t been keeping track of the OneNote twists and turns … It’s part of the planned obsolescence of one OneNote app and the focus on a single Windows program for OneNote.ĭespite this change, there’s still plenty of Microsoft created confusion around OneNote apps. In the Start Migration flyout for Teams projects, users will now see options to migrate OneNote notebooks and tabs from that UI.The lesser of the two Windows OneNote programs has been dropped from the Microsoft Store. This includes notebooks in both public and private Teams. Migrated OneNote contents include section, pages, titles, and tables, as well as permissions if specified during project setup. MigrationWiz supports the migration of notebooks and tabs in the first two bullets, though we do not migrate nor recreate tabs for personal OneNotes stored in OneDrive and linked to Teams (we do support the migration of notebooks on OneDrive as part of a standard document migration). A notebook stored in a personal OneDrive. The default notebook in the Team/Channel. With respect to Teams, there are three types of OneNote notebooks: Each SectionGroup is a folder inside the OneNote Document Folder. OneNote notebooks are stored as a Folder in SharePoint, with each section being a File. A OneNote notebook is created for each SharePoint Online Team site.