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Microsoft Office One Note 2007 released by Microsoft with VERY BAD support for Windows Mobile May 28, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R. While other sites, mostly run by (totally uncritical) Microsoft fanboys with MVP title, are describing this program as a superb progress and new way to take notes in your Windows XP Tablet PC or notebooks and in your Windows Mobile device, the reality is that Microsoft once again is releasing a crippled product with very poor support for Windows Mobile. While Xbox 360 offers no support for Windows Mobile at all, here Microsoft Office One Note 2007: 
... offers at least SOME support for Windows Mobile, but it is very cumbersome and is not providing full feature set! Here comes another debacle from Microsoft! Read on! Microsoft writes: Improve productivity away from the office. Synchronize your Microsoft Windows Mobile powered devices with Office OneNote 2007 so you can take contents of your notebook with you and view them on your mobile device. In addition, information you capture on your Smartphone or Microsoft Windows Mobile–based Pocket PC devices, including photos and text, can be transferred to Office OneNote 2007 and made text-searchable. Office One Note Mobile for Windows Mobile is part of Microsoft Office One Note 2007 - an application that makes it possible to take notes both on your Tablet PC and on your regular notebook powered by Windows XP. Additionally after installation of the Office One Note 2007 on your PC and after connecting your Windows Mobile device through ActiveSync, this pop-up appears: 
You can click on it and install Windows Mobile version of One Note in this way, so that you can use it in your Windows Mobile device: 
Alternatively you can just copy file OneNoteMobile.CAB from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12\1033 folder, to your Windows Mobile device and open it. OneNoteMobile.CAB file is size 402 KB only, but to get it you need to download file of size of over 200 MB that contains Windows XP version of this program. One Note Mobile for Windows Mobile is very poor in features: 
... and not only user cannot create handwritten notes with it in Pocket PC (that has touch screen and handwriting support), but also notes created in Tablet PC cannot be even viewed in Windows Mobile device: 
Furthermore to synchronize notes from PC (Tablet PC or notebook) to mobile device (Windows Mobile) one has to use ActiveSync and document synchronization: copying files manually is not working, because OneNoteMobile is not associating files with extension *.one so files can't be opened with file browser, and OneNoteMobile itself has no file browsing ability. Although Windows Mobile 5.0 has built-in camera API, OneNoteMobile has no ability to take photos directly from it, but user must start separately camera application, take the photo, and then manually save it to the local file system of the Windows Mobile device. Apart from (cumbersome) taking photos from built-in camera of mobile device and synchronizing them to PC version of One Note (with VERY limited OCR abilities), users can also record audio notes in OneNoteMobile and embed them in the documents to be synchronized later with PC. As mentioned previously however no handwriting is possible - what is not a problem in Microsoft Smartphone, but is very annoying in Pocket PC devices. Conclusion: while it is noteworthy that Microsoft is offering SOME support for Windows Mobile in their full-size products for Windows XP, it is sad that Windows Mobile versions of these products are so crippled and that whole integration with Windows Mobile is superficial. To download Office OneNote 2007 (part of which is OneNoteMobile) click here (and later on select "One Note" if you don't need other components of Office 2007).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 3 Comments ]
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