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If you're using #Microsoft #OneNote, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to #Windows11 soon:

You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a #Microsoft365 account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/m

For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding #lockin effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.

People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of

My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as #Emacs #Orgmode & not yet another hip lock-in monster like #Obsidian, #Evernote or other closed source #cloud solutions: karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-c

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Windows Latest · Microsoft will intentionally slow OneNote for Windows 10, so you ditch it fasterMicrosoft has confirmed that it's killing off "OneNote for Windows 10," but it also plans to force the legacy app's sync to run slower.
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In my opinion it is best to start your #boycottus journey by picking the low-hanging fruit first. By this I mean services that are not subject to #networkeffect or #vendorlockin. This gives you easy wins and keeps up the motivation. Good examples are backup and file synchronization services, calendar applications, navigation applications, chat applications for teams and project management software.

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You can also end up in a #vendorlockin all by yourself. This can happen unintentionally when you add a lot of value on top of a solution. For example, if you all the bells and whistles in Microsoft 365 or Azure it will be hard for you to decouple yourself from them later. To avoid this prefer solutions that are not vendor-specific whenever you can.

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For example, Microsoft used their dominant marketshare to create #vendorlockin in operating systems (Windows), office software (Microsoft Office) and web browsers (Internet Explorer) to sabotage their competitors They did this by intentionally breaking standards compliance (HTML), not having standards (.doc format) and by using "leverage" (i.e. extortion) to force PC manufacturers to pre-install Windows on every system despite availability of alternatives.