Why does OneNote not have VBA ? Answer: Security

[EMRhelp.org]

OneNote is a new app, still. OneNote 2007 is a limited but useful
product. It is *NOT* an information warehouse that will promote
significant sharing amongst users and it's recall of stored information
is very weak. It'll store a few notes on a few things, that's really
it.

Considering how limited a product it is .... why not allow end users
the ability to customize it ? Users familiar with VBA in Word and
Excel know that with a little know how, you can make a great like Excel
- awesome.

Automation makes difficult time consuming tasks doable.

well then why wouldn't a not that mature app like OneNote shy away from
VBA ?

The answer is security fears.

Microsoft, rightfully so, has major security concerns. Windows XP is
like Swiss Cheese. Even SP2.

I read this today in the Washington Post ...
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Due early next year, Vista is the first product to be designed from
scratch under a Microsoft program dubbed secure development life cycle,
which represents a sea change in the company's approach to bringing out
new products. Instead of placing the addition of compelling new
features at the top of engineers' priority list, Microsoft now requires
them to first consider how code might be misused.
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In that environment, I can see how VBA never made it to OneNote 2007.

And I suspect those *PAINFULLY ANNOYING* hyperlink messages you get in
OneNote are the result of this security group.

I'm still hoping to use OneNote 2007, because there isn't that much
meaningful competition.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha EMRhelp.org,

OneNote is a new app, still. OneNote 2007 is a limited but useful
product. It is *NOT* an information warehouse that will promote
significant sharing amongst users and it's recall of stored
information is very weak. It'll store a few notes on a few things,
that's really it.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

In any event there is a considerably more robust API in 2007 than there was
in 2003.

And I suspect those *PAINFULLY ANNOYING* hyperlink messages you get in
OneNote are the result of this security group.

You don't have to suspect it, you've been told so.


-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[Rainald Taesler]

And I suspect those *PAINFULLY ANNOYING* hyperlink messages you get
in
OneNote are the result of this security group.

What do mean by "painfully anoying"?
Just the appearance of a hyperlink to the location where web-things
wre taken from?

IMHO this is not annoying at all.
To the contrary: I see it as a great feature.
The source of the quote is there automatically.
Saves copy+paste for the URL manually.
I for one really like that.

If it seems ammoying, it's easy enough to delete it.

Rainald