Microsoft’s OneNote MX Available For Windows 8 [Download Now]

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The flow of Office apps with Windows 8′s new touchscreen-friendly Metro UI has begun. The first Metro-styled Office app was released yesterday, in the form of OneNote MX. The cloud-stored notebook app attempts to bridge the gap between touchscreen devices and desktop computers, allowing you to write notes for yourself with your keyboard or your finger.

You’ll need to have the Windows 8 Release Preview installed if you want to give OneNote a try, and don’t expect a completely finished piece of software. There’s still some missing features, with obvious places for them to be added in later. SharePoint integration is still completely absent, for example, and sharing things with other Metro apps isn’t possible yet.

However, the features that are there are pretty cool looking. There’s a new radial menu that hasn’t been seen before in other Metro apps, and it looks like a good execution of the Metro design vision. SkyDrive integration works without a hitch, and the app works more or less like it’s supposed to. You can put just about anything you want in the notebook, from hand-drawn doodles, to typed text, to screenshots and other images. It’s an interesting tool for the absent-minded, and the ability to sync everything across all Windows 8 devices will bring it to a new level of usefulness.
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