I caught a note from Andrew Grill the other day and I made a mental note to post on it. He points out that Vodafone UK still haven’t made their desktop texting service, ‘Vodafone Message Centre’, work on Outlook 2007.
Obviously such an update requires resources, project managers, serious meetings by serious people in serious shirts and brightly coloured ties. Lots of pained faces and note-taking and gazing out of at the very nice Newbury countryside down at Vodafone HQ.
You can’t simply knock it up. Not when you’re a big company like Vodafone. You’ve got to test. Deploy. Blah-de-blah. Things take time.
Meanwhile, every minute that goes by, everyone using Outlook 2007 (or, for that matter, an Apple) can’t use Message Centre.
The solution? Outsource this sort of thing to some professionals. Buy it off the shelf from an aggregator. Or talk to the developers at SMSMac and get them to create and maintain a Vodafone branded service.
As a Vodafone customer I’d like this.
I won’t, obviously, hold my breath.
Just double checked. The application is supplied by http://www.generalwireless.com and back when I asked them they said that while their general application supports 2007, the VF branded one did not.
Just checked by going to http://www.sms4pc.com which gives the VF UK link. Downloaded the file and yes, it still does not work for Outlook 2007.
If it worked I would use it all the time as it gets linked to my VF account so messages get charged and sent from my main mobile number. I used to sell another system that sent from a different MSISDN which became confusing.
Hopefully with MIR to the rescue this will be quietly resolved!
You can use http://www.sms4windows.com/services-isms/index….
It doesn't tie in to your account – but you get 10 free messages. You can buy extra messages from http://www.sms4windows.com/refill/ Prices range from
You can use http://www.sms4windows.com/services-isms/index….
It doesn't tie in to your account – but you get 10 free messages. You can buy extra messages from http://www.sms4windows.com/refill/ Prices range from €0.095 to €0.13 per message.
Some people have had success installing it on 2007 – see http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.php?showtopic…
Just double checked. The application is supplied by http://www.generalwireless.com and back when I asked them they said that while their general application supports 2007, the VF branded one did not.
Just checked by going to http://www.sms4pc.com which gives the VF UK link. Downloaded the file and yes, it still does not work for Outlook 2007.
If it worked I would use it all the time as it gets linked to my VF account so messages get charged and sent from my main mobile number. I used to sell another system that sent from a different MSISDN which became confusing.
Hopefully with MIR to the rescue this will be quietly resolved!
You can use http://www.sms4windows.com/services-isms/index….
It doesn't tie in to your account – but you get 10 free messages. You can buy extra messages from http://www.sms4windows.com/refill/ Prices range from €0.095 to €0.13 per message.
Some people have had success installing it on 2007 – see http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.php?showtopic…
here's an unsupported workaround: http://www.shazbux.co.uk/wp/microsoft/vodafone-…