Vodafone Message Centre doesn't work for Outlook 2007 yet

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.