So I am trying out OneNote today in an attempt to try and use all of the Microsoft products I can. Hopefully this will allow me to become more efficient in my daily activities. At the moment I am trying to put my thoughts down, so I thought, "Oh, a program that helps me collect my notes would be great". I have tried out OneNote before and didn’t like it when I couldn’t figure out how to make it change my voice into notes, then I remembered "Matt figured out how to make it work when he bought his Tablet PC". So I ask Matt, "Matt, how do you get OneNote to work correctly?" Here is where the problem comes in. He responded "You don’t and You can’t you have Windows XP, hahahahahaha (evil laugh)". It turns out that the voice to text feature of OneNote, as far as he knows, is only part of the Tablet PC OS. This seems to be crazy to me and I cannot for the life of me figure out why Microsoft wouldn’t put the voice to speech features in the XP OS. Maybe I missing something here, but are you telling me I have to buy the Tablet OS to get some of the features I want, but buy XP Pro if I want other features? Hopefully someone that either works on XP or Tablet PC will read this and help straighten things up because I can’t believe that I am going to have to buy and install another operating system just to get OneNote to "work".

--Brendon Schwartz