It’s taken too long but Microsoft has finally realized that OneNote is a good product but overpriced. The retail price is now $99.95 but you can find it for less than that.
It’s taken too long but Microsoft has finally realized that OneNote is a good product but overpriced. The retail price is now $99.95 but you can find it for less than that.
Our online shop, powered by Amazon, has it for $79.99 – a price available to all purchasers.
In addition legitimate students may be able to get the academic edition from a campus store for an even lower price. Microsoft is aggressively pushing OneNote in schools and colleges.
The Office Watch team likes OneNote, we have for a long time and am not ashamed to tell anyone that will listen. However it’s asking a lot for people to fork over a hundred bucks or more for something that is largely an unknown quantity.
The fact that OneNote isn’t available in any Office bundle makes it seem to most consumers like a marginal product that perhaps won’t survive. Microsoft says selling OneNote alone is a sign of confidence in the software and they might even believe that. However many people don’t trust Microsoft not to drop a product when it suits the company and leave the customers high and dry.
There’s a free 60 day trial download available from Microsoft.
