Awards for OneNote

We've had a good week here last week on the OneNote team. First, we heard that we had won a Microsoft internal award for “Best Software User Experience” at our Design Day 2004. This is an event that is held each year as a kind of internal conference on design. One of our users had entered us into the competition, and we ended up winning in our category. It is nice to be recognized by your peers...

Then later that afternoon, we heard that eWeek had awarded us its “eWeek eXcellence” award in the personal productivity category. You can read more about it here: https://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1559948,00.asp.

We had previously won an award in Italy and in the UK (PC Plus Editor's choice). So that brings our “medal count” to four.

I usually discount awards since it is so easy for me to see the flaws in anything I work on, but today I was holding the actual lucite block for the Design Day 2004 award and that made it a little more real. It was kind of weird to feel that other people had decided something you and your friends had made was worth giving you an *award* for.

Hmm. Must...win...more...awards...

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 13, 2004
  Congratulations on the awards. You deserve them all - and indeed I expect you will get many more (leaving some for v.2 of course;))
• Anonymous
  April 13, 2004
  Congratulations indeed :) I hope to be using OneNote a lot more myself soon and am really looking to forward to SP1 as it seems shrouded in mystery ;)
• Anonymous
  April 29, 2004
  I'm fascinated with OneNote! It's been such a great tool for me to become organized and help manage staff. Congrats on the award!
• Anonymous
  April 29, 2004
  Hey, OneNote is also listed at THE GREAT SOFTWARE LIST under the Outlining, Calendar, and PIM section(http://www.anova.org/software/index02.htm#pim)
  
  So carve another notch on the OneNote stick!