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Vaporware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vaporware is a term used to describe a product, usually software, that has been announced by a developer during or before its development, if there is significant doubt whether the ...
VaporWare (company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
VaporWare is a company that designs Internet-related applications for the Amiga. Many of their products are marketed as shareware. These products include AmIRC, an Internet Relay ...
Vaporware
Index What is vaporware? "Vaporware is a practice that is deceitful on its face and everybody in the business community knows it." -Judge Sporkin in The Wall Street Journal ...
Vaporware - Jalopnik
Chevy Volt: First Drive? We'd love to drive the Chevy Volt test mule like Wired and others, but we're pretty sure the Volt PR team is afraid of us. As well they should be. We ...
VaporWare - Home of Quality Amiga(tm) Internet Software
VaporWare is the primary source for quality Amiga Internet software and provides applications for most Internet services, from Webbrowsing over E-Mail/News to IRC.
Vaporware '06: Return of the King
Pull back the red curtain and dim the lights. It's the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, our ode to the year's top technology products promised, hyped and ...
vaporware - Wiktionary
vaporware (uncountable) An advertised product, often computer software, whose launch has not happened yet and might or might not ever happen. Translations
VaporWare - Definition of VaporWare at YourDictionary.com
In the Computer Underground (CU), it is a sarcastic term designating software or hardware that has been announced by vendors but is not yet available on the market.
Vaporware Stories
Although it only surfaces in the media from time to time, "vaporware" is a term used to label a lot of products, from software to cars, and talking about it can prove a really ...
VaporWare - AmIRC Product Information
VaporWare is the primary source for quality Amiga Internet software and provides applications for most Internet services, from Webbrowsing over E-Mail/News to IRC.
Vaporware - Gizmodo
Phantom Lapboard Shipping By The End of The Year, Promise! Remember the Phantom Lapboard? Yeah, it's been so long that we've heard any news of it (despite them telling us that it ...
Vaporware: Nuke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em
Wired News presents its annual Vaporware Awards, celebrating all those eagerly anticipated gadgets that never quite materialized. Once again, the list is dominated by games like 3D ...
vaporware - What does V/W stand for? Acronyms and abbreviations by the ...
It contained a good deal of copy about what's right and what's vaporware about the new XYZ system and promised the next issue would have an extensive user report on the new product ...
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Vaporware is a term used to describe a product, usually software, that has been announced by a developer during or before its development, if there is significant doubt whether the product will actually be released. The term is usually applied to products which fail to emerge after having well-exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product, or when the release date is delayed repeatedly without adequate evidence of specific unforeseen hurdles that cause these delays. The term implies unwarranted optimism, an as yet unannounced abandonment of a project, or sometimes even deception; that is, it may imply that the announcer knows that product development is in too early a stage to support responsible statements about its completion date, feature set, or even feasibility. However, most vaporware would not be considered a hoax since the makers have a genuine intention to create their product, even if it ultimately never materializes. Products with unspecified release dates or long development times that outwardly demonstrate regular, verifiable progress in production are not normally labelled vaporware.

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