Microsoft is discontinuing OneNote for Windows 10 app

Microsoft will discontinue OneNote for Windows 10, the Windows 10 integrated OneNote app, sometime in the future. The company continues with the other OneNote app it has, which can also be installed as a standalone app.

Users of the OneNote for Windows 10 app will receive an invitation to update to a universal OneNote app in the second half of 2022. That will then be an updated version of Microsoft’s other OneNote app. That reports Microsoft.

Currently there are two OneNote apps for Windows. There is the OneNote for Windows 10 that comes standard in Windows 10 and also from the Microsoft Store can be downloaded. This one will disappear. In addition, there is OneNote, which is part of Office 2019 and Microsoft 365, but which as free desktop app also installable on all supported Windows versions.

Microsoft will further develop the latter version and it will receive functions that are currently only available in OneNote for Windows 10. Windows 11 can still run both apps upon release, but OneNote for Windows 10 is not part of the successor to Windows 10 by default.

Mock-up of what Microsoft’s updated OneNote app might look like