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	Vaporware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vaporware is software or hardware which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle.
		In some cases, vaporware may be the result of a trial balloon which "doesn't fly".
		Sometimes vaporware is the result of over-optimism on the part of a well-intending organization, and may actually materialize after a long waiting time (sometimes years).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vaporware (1339 words)

	Vaporware
		Memorandum of The United States of America in response to the Court's inquiries concerning "vaporware" The memorandum submitted by Anne K. Bingaman, the Assistant Attorney General, which denies the court the ability to prsecute Microsoft on issues concerning vaporware because it was not included in the original complaint brought against Microsoft in the antitrust suit.
		Vaporware is more than just annoying -- it can be downright expensive A case study on Symantec Visual Cafe 1.0 and Lotus Organizer GS, and how their delay c ost companies time and money in development plans.
		Vaporware tactics elicit mixed views Some good statistics on what IT professionals and desktop users think of vaporware's harm to competition, Alleged vaporware practices by Microsoft, and the level at which the government should be involved in regulating software announcements.
	ethics.csc.ncsu.edu /commerce/anticompetitive/vaporware (349 words)

	Twilight Princess: Vaporware? - Kotaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Vaporware should only be accounting for titles with five or six realse pushbacks or when the "when it's finished" approach is implemented.
		Being shown two years ago doesn't really make it vaporware, and it was playable at last E3 - most of these things no one has touched, and a fair number of people actually played Zelda at E3 last year.
		The only true Nintendo vaporware now is Mario 128, which was supposed to have been unveiled three E3s in a row now, and has never even earned a passing mention.
	www.kotaku.com /gaming/vaporware/twilight-princess-vaporware-153077.php (982 words)

	The PS3 and Wii are both vaporware at this point. - nV News Forums
		Vaporware is usually for a product the has been announced and/or marketed, but has not been produced, the Wii appears to have been produced.
		Thus the 360 was vaporware for a short while after launch.
		The only thing that's vaporware is the Phantom, or the Crossfire editions of ATI cards (ok I saw a X1900XT Crossfire today at local store, so maybe I'm wrong).
	www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70689 (2074 words)

	Microsoft and vaporware
		Most would agree that use of vaporware can be evidence of specific intent to exclude rivals from the market, regardless of whether the tactic succeeded on the particular occasion in question.
		If illegal vaporware is defined at the outset as intentionally false, the definition may filter out the socially useful conduct from the valueless conduct.
		Still another approach to vaporware might be to forget about the antitrust laws and turn to unfair competition laws, which forbid unfair and deceptive acts and practices, if they harm consumers or competitors.
	docs.law.gwu.edu /facweb/claw/Vaporware.htm (3234 words)

	Vaporware - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Vaporware es software o hardware anunciado por un desarrollador mucho antes de realizar el desarrollo, pero que después no llega a emerger, ni a tener un ciclo de desarrollo más o menos estable.
		El vaporware guarda similitudes con los hoax (engaños), pues ambos consisten en promocionar un producto o evento que no podrá ser producido nunca.
		Algunos juegos, incluso pueden convertirse en vaporware si son objeto de una campaña promocional.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vaporware (1132 words)

	Wired News: Vaporware: Nuke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em
		Wired News: Vaporware: Nuke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em Note: You are reading this message either because you can not see our css files (served from Lygo, a lycos image service, for performance reasons), or because you do not have a standards-compliant browser.
		Now in its seventh year, Wired News' Vaporware Awards celebrates all those eagerly anticipated gizmos in 2003 that were put off, put away or quietly put down.
		However, rather than award 3D Realms the coveted Vaporware title for the third year in a row, we decided the company deserved something special.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,61935,00.html (721 words)

	Vaporware
		Currently, there is a lot of confusion among all parties, the software companies, the stockholders, the consumers and the courts, as to just what vaporware entails.
		Some software companies view vaporware as a means of previewing technology to its customers, but others feel it is a tactic to bury weaker competition.
		Is there such a thing as "good vaporware and bad vaporware?" Does your answer change if you are a vice president of Microsoft?
	ethics.csc.ncsu.edu /commerce/anticompetitive/vaporware/discussion.php (285 words)

	Monkey Bites
		Vaporware is one thing, but when you basically show your hand and admit it's still a long way off, that's another.
		So, yes, the utter lack of purpose of the Mac is the vaporware winner again, 22 years in a row.
		As far as the oldest vaporware I'd say it is not desktop Linux (although it's way up there), but the flying car.
	blog.wired.com /monkeybites/2006/11/2006_vaporware_.html (8485 words)

	Vapor Ware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		[Not all vaporware is completely nonexistent; software that is in development and has been announced somehow, but doesn't have a firm availability date and feature set, is often considered vaporware.
		The term vaporware like the products it describes is a bit ill defined and still in the pipe.
		I guess by now any reader who has not already experienced VaporWare is starting to get the idea.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?VaporWare (324 words)

	Techdirt: Is Audible Magic Vaporware?
		The RIAA has been doing its best to talk up the wonders of Audible Magic's system for filtering out copyrighted files from file sharing networks, but some are beginning to wonder if it's all just vaporware.
		It seems unlikely that the product is really vaporware - but it also seems quite unlikely that it really works all that well.
		Vaporware by Anonymous Coward on Jun 3rd, 2004 @ 7:41am
	www.techdirt.com /articles/20040602/1512250.shtml (462 words)

	Vaporware: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (via CobWeb/3.1 vn1.cs.wustl.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Vaporware: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (via CobWeb/3.1 vn1.cs.wustl.edu)
		Gadgets We can smell hints of vaporware from miles away, and while Phantom has certainly personified the term in recent situations...
		Vaporware per day for the last 30 days.
	technorati.com.cob-web.org:8888 /tag/Vaporware (305 words)

	Wired News: Vaporware Phantom Haunts Us All (via CobWeb/3.1 vn1.cs.wustl.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Welcome to the shadowy, spectral world of vaporware, a product purgatory where goods are promised, but not delivered.
		Now in its eighth year, Wired News' annual Vaporware Awards celebrate all the wonderful gewgaws of 2004 that sadly never saw the light of day.
		We sent 3D Realms a note congratulating the firm for qualifying yet again for a Vaporware title, and invited it to submit a short victory speech.
	www.wired.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/culture/0,1284,66195,00.html (593 words)

	Video games highly susceptible to becoming vaporware - Joystiq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Vaporware (also spelled vapourware) is software or hardware which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle.
		Vaporware has nothing to do with something as arbitrary as a delay or 'continuously in production'.
		Wired uses specific rules for vaporware: if it was promised in 2005 but didn't make it, it's vaporware.
	www.joystiq.com /2006/02/06/video-games-highly-susceptible-to-becoming-vaporware (2930 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
		If you had to use a single product as an example to help you explain the concept of "Vaporware" to a newbie, this would be it.
		Battlecruiser 3000 AD (BC3K for short) has been maniacally hyped by its creator, Dr. Derek Smart, from the time he first devised the first basic game rules and came up with a couple of screen shots to post on-line and send out to reviewers.
		This time it was Take 2 Interactive, and it too must have fallen under the Vaporware aura surrounding BC3K - in all sincerity, the company slated the game for a December 15, 1995 release.
	www.gamespot.com /features/vaporware/html/number1.html (746 words)

	Wired News: Vaporware: Better Late Than Never
		Ladies and gents, welcome to the 2005 Vaporware Awards -- the prize that celebrates the tech products that were promised last year but never delivered.
		Lots of votes were cast for the nifty-looking Optimus keyboard -- a configurable keyboard with a little screen on each key to denote its function.
		Developed by a Russian design studio, it looked too good to be true, which is one of the classic makings of vaporware -- except for one thing: The company said it'll ship in 2006.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,70143-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 (703 words)

	vaporware - a definition from Whatis.com
		Vaporware is software or hardware that is either (1) announced or mentioned publicly in order to influence customers to defer buying competitors' products or (2) late being delivered for whatever reason.
		Most computer companies have from time to time delivered vaporware, either by calculation or unintentionally.
		Vaporware is also the name of a company that makes games and other products for Amiga users.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci213273,00.html (115 words)

	IGN: Top 10 Tuesday: Modern Vaporware
		From counting down the best consoles ever to revealing the worst use of fish heads in a videogame, this is where it's at.
		The cornerstone of most videogame "what if" discussions, vaporware is any product that's announced at one point in time, only to go through several delays before eventually coming out or getting cancelled before all is said and done.
		Lord of the Clans, otherwise known as WarCraft Advenures, was supposed to reinvigorate the faltering PC adventure genre.
	pc.ign.com /articles/701/701364p1.html (1726 words)

	Screenshot slide show: Vaporware's greatest hits - slideshow - CNET.com
		Vaporware n: Any piece of technology with equal and excessive numbers of promises and delays.
		Here is some of the best vaporware in gaming.
		Despite scant evidence and very little progress in proving its existence, die-hard fanatics at 3D Realms insist that it's still on the way.
	reviews.cnet.com /4520-9020_7-6555927-1.html (94 words)

	VaporWare - Home of Quality Amiga(tm) Internet Software
		or over 9 years, VaporWare has lead the way in Amiga(tm) Internet application development.
		A world-wide collaboration of the most experienced and talented Amiga(tm) programmers makes sure your Amiga(tm) is always up to and beyond standards in today's Internet applications, in every respect from Web browsing over Mail and News to IRC.
		VaporWare has also been supporting the new operating system MorphOS for years.
	www.vapor.com (195 words)

	Vaporware - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 vn1.cs.wustl.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unter dem Namen Vaporware vertreibt eine Gruppe um den in Amiga-Kreisen bekannten Programmierer Oliver Wagner hauptsächlich Internet-Software.
		Eines der bekanntesten Beispiele für Vaporware ist der freie Kernel GNU Hurd, der seit dem Beginn seiner Entwicklung im Jahre 1990 „nächstes Jahr“ erscheint.
		Der Vaporware Award ist ein Negativpreis für angekündigte, aber nicht zum angegebenen Zeitpunkt fertig gestellte Hardware- oder Software-Produkte.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Vaporware (648 words)

	Vivtek vaporware
		At the moment, however, we are content to be one of the leading players in the vaporware industry.
		By literate programming, we are envisioning something a little more ambitious (this is the vaporware page, after all) than Knuth's original concept.
		It seems to us that such an ontology would not only be a useful way to navigate a website, but also could lead to formal ways to specify program components, even for the technically naive.
	www.vivtek.com /vaporware.html (474 words)

	The Next Net: Can Sinofsky Help Microsoft Make the Leap From Vaporware to Perpetual Beta?
		The new boss of Microsoft’s Windows division, Steven Sinofsky, is a bit of an aberration on the Redmond campus.
		Bloated vaporware may be nothing new at Microsoft, but it is something that the company will find more difficult to get away with.
		Waiting a half- decade for a new set of software improvements will become increasingly unacceptable to customers weaned on the Web, where software is constantly updated and always available.
	business2.blogs.com /business2blog/2006/03/can_sinofsky_he.html (1580 words)

	The Phantom (game system) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Due to the excessive use of buzzwords and a suspicious lack of details, the product was derided almost from the start by news sites such as IGN and Slashdot and the popular comic strip Penny Arcade.
		It also received the first place in "Vaporwares 2004" in Wired News.
		The Phantom was first seen in action at the May 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E³) as a working prototype.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Phantom_(game_system) (1049 words)

	DailyTech - Wired Magazine's 2005 Vaporware Awards
		The folks at Wired Magazine have their own idea of vaporware and have compiled their winners for 2005.
		Vaporware is something that is hyped and isint coming out, not something Like BlueRay/HDDVD/Vista...
		Just because something is pushed back doesn't mean it's gone, which is what vaporware is (like team fortress).
	www.dailytech.com /article.aspx?newsid=644 (750 words)

	Voodoo Extreme: Wired Calls for Vaporware 06 Nominees
		As in previous years, software locked in the pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it's widely available.
		Prototypes may exist in some company's skunk labs, but it's vaporware until the public gets its hands on it.
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	ve3d.ign.com /articles/746/746469p1.html (172 words)

	VE3D Boards - Wired 2006 Vaporware Awards
		Wired issued its latest top 10 Vaporware awards for 2006 where a few noteables include Team Fortress 2, The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, Windows Vista, StarCraft Ghost, The Phantom Console, plus of course, Duke Nukem Forever.
		It has an official push-back for 2007 and it was not the first time for the title...
		I think Vaporware is something that will never see the day of light...
	ve3dboards.ign.com /Message.aspx?topic=23087625 (332 words)

	Vaporware
		concerned with the issue of law enforcement agencies being deceived and burning through tax payer dollars on what turns out to be vaporware.
		Companies, big and small, have promised whatever they had to in order to get the contract, and rarely have delivered on that promise.
		Invest tax payer dollars in an accepted software application with a proven track record that not only saves time and solves crime, it actually works!
	www.xpediter.com /vaporware.htm (154 words)

	broadband help » News » A Vaporware Masterpiece - Phantom gaming console's rough road
		Take one part dumb terminal with an ethernet connection, take an individual with a history of business failure, make repeated promises, file lawsuits against websites that claim you don't know what you're doing, then eventually run out of money before fielding a product.
		The Wired News rank of 3rd biggest vaporware product of all time might have been generous, as filings indicate Infinium labs is out of money and almost out of time.
		No, they gave Duke Nukem Forever the biggest honor by granting them the "Lifetime Achievement Award" go to the page 1 of the Wired article.
	www.broadbandreports.com /shownews/57267 (1720 words)

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