Microsoft’s Sticky Notes Teases Upcoming Upgrade: Will It Impress Users With Sparkling New Features Or Another Tricky Situation For Microsoft?
The Sticky Notes app for Windows is about to get possibly its most important update yet. The default Windows app works the same way most people use sticky notes in real life: you can quickly take notes and make them visible on your desktop. It’s been four years since we’ve seen any major updates to Sticky Notes, and Microsoft promises that it has big things in mind for the handy app.
The update was announced by the official Microsoft Sticky Notes account on X (formerly Twitter)the account’s first post since April 2020. The post generated buzz from users who quickly began speculating about what Microsoft might be cooking up, with many users quick to express concern that the new Sticky Notes will be a web-based app.
🎉New Year! New updates! Stay tuned for some of our biggest announcements yet! 🥳pic.twitter.com/OhgpkBxFfoJanuary 24, 2024
Windows fans are starting to speculate
Some users suspected that the app was getting an AI-powered injection, similar to that found in apps like Notepad and Paint, and in line with Microsoft’s great AI-backed tool push. Our very own Muskaan Saxena even wrote about her hopes for one AI-powered Sticky Notes app earlier this year. It seems that neither this nor the idea of a web-based version is the case the @stickynotes profile responding to the first announcement post that the Sticky Notes app won’t be a web app (at least for now).
Because everyone is asking… Our big news is not a web app for the time being… 😉January 24, 2024
Then followed with some playful messages teasing users about the upcoming upgrade, including an upgrade that appears to be a screenshot of the app that reads:
“There are a lot of rumors going around about our update. Can you guess what it is?
Only wrong answers.
We go first…
Sticky Notes AI upgrade.”
Because everyone asks 😆 pic.twitter.com/wKpSuvLMCZJanuary 29, 2024
At the moment, Sticky Notes seems to enjoy a good reputation among users and Windows fans – even though it has a relatively simple feature set. says Neowin the app has “reliability and simplicity,” and Microsoft would do well to prioritize and maintain these aspects of the app.
Microsoft’s recent track record
Microsoft recently launched the new web-based Outlook app, replacing existing desktop apps like Mail, to a less than enthusiastic reception. Users have expressed disappointment over the functionality-related shortcomings of the new Outlook app and its performance as a powerful data harvester for Microsoft, as reported by Proton AG (a company that offers online services with an emphasis on privacy). This recent Outlook-related news has made users skeptical about future developments coming from Microsoft.
Fans and viewers of the Sticky Notes app are apparently open to seeing what Microsoft has in store, while not hiding their strong potential concerns, and Microsoft could just pull something truly impressive out of the bag. Some users have raised the question of whether Sticky Notes actually needs new and fancy features, but perhaps it’s easy enough to just not use what they don’t need.
Personally, I agree that an app like Sticky Notes might be best fit for purpose if kept simpler, and even if Microsoft adds features there’s probably plenty of room for development without having to rely on AI . We’ll have to see how exciting this upgrade is when it actually arrives, but until then we’ll just have to wait and hope that Microsoft hears the very available user feedback.