@ craig
" Personally, I'd highly suggest contacting your Cisco account representative, in Cisco Sales, and having them add to a Product Enhancement Request (PER) for a Unity version of Viewmail for Outlook that supports Outlook 2010. This way, they can attach dollar values to it and push for the development of it faster."
after a really bad day at least I can leave on a laugh...thank you Craig.
how does this go...?
"dear cisco, I would like to give you my money, but first you must create a plugin for the world's most widely used business email application which will allow me to listen to the voicemail messages which are stored on my Cisco voicemail server. The email application I am describing is called Microsoft Outlook. Its offered by the same people who make the operating system that you require for customers who purchase your crappy voicemail system. I know you've heard about it because for the past 8 years I've been using a cisco plugin called Cisco Viewmail For Outlook. You might look into it; its a very simple tool and works pretty well despite being a cisco product and running on a microsoft platform. I think it would be a good idea to update it to work on Outlook 2010. Anyway, if you get around to it I'll be sure to send you my dollars. thanks."
I mean, "who thinks this kind of statement is actually necessary?" Come on Cisco people, get your act together already. Its Feburary 2011 starting tomorrow; Windows 7 shipped in 2009 and Office 2010 shipped last Summer with both products being widely available in beta form earlier than that. Even the most thick-headed and dumb folks in the world can recognize the need to update this software...try hiring one of them for your product development team for a change!
