OneNote SP 1 beta

Along with these major changes, Microsoft has taken the opportunity to tweak other aspects of OneNote. It's now easier to move pages around, there's password protection for individual sections, and it's added the ability to capture a region of the screen and automatically paste it into your notebook.

Overall, OneNote has matured from a product that showed a lot of potential to one that should be a standard part of the Office installation on any machine. And this is our main complaint about the program: you still have to pay extra for it, as it isn't bundled with any version of Office. This is a shame, as it's one of those applications that users would benefit from playing with, and finding out what it can do for them. Nevertheless, with this update OneNote moves from being an interesting curiosity to a serious business application.

Author: Ian Betteridge