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TKS800 (1984 - vapourware)

TK Printer (vapourware)

Daryl Sims went on to play with Sydney based alternative bands Vapourware, Insurge and Primary.

Univel Inc last week cut its prices in half because of Microsoft Windows NT, the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market.

Mera-Elzab made two versions of Meritum and a third was announced and exhibited in a computer fair in 1986, but was never produced (vapourware).

Not sure about the 'they do exist' comment - seems to be lots of vapourware at the minute, though of course it woulod all be wonderful if only ...

This neatly demonstrates the problem with apps: the publisher needs to develop and support a good dozen of them before everyone's happy, and as we know from experience, some just end up as vapourware.

Vapourware: MS Surface (why didn't MS buy Bumptop which disappeared into Google), the MS Courier, Zune etc..

The five year development process led to accusations of vapourware and producing a modern PowerPC OS, given that Hyperion claimed that they had the original AmigaOS 3.1 source codes to reference (a claim later proven accurate).

To try and steal a march on SunSoft and USL - still vapourware - SCO last week announced release 2 of its Open Desktop Unix operating system environment, which will ship on July 1.

Those drastic price cuts instituted by Univel Inc last week (CI No 2,128) are being seen as response to the nervousness engendered by Microsoft Corp's Windows NT, the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market.

It's not vaporware because you can actually use it right now.

And all too often the product turns out to be vaporware.

There is also believed to be a third game which became vaporware.

They have done it since late 1999 with actual devices that are out there, not vaporware.

There's a special term for products that never seem to get out of the development cycle: vaporware.

One decision I made was to have some product in place before so people didn't think we were selling vaporware.

The system was never released and is considered vaporware.

Seven major companies issued a report in 1990 saying they felt vaporware had hurt the industry's credibility.

Vapor is the short form of the slang term vaporware.

It's pervasive stuff, this vaporware, and it affects the mind.

I'd rather spend my time reading about real research, not bidding on vaporware!"

Teasing the market with vaporware tablets just makes people angry.

It's "vaporware," the most misunderstood concept in the software industry.

Thus, in this earliest use, vaporware referred simply to a project that had lost steam.

Because it's all vaporware, every last ounce of it.

"Vaporware" took another meaning when it was used to describe a product that did not exist.

The first reported use of the word "vaporware" was in 1982 by an engineer at the computer software company Microsoft.

So how was this a vaporware announcement when there never was one to begin with?

I don't think that Microsoft created this document because they needed some vaporware.

The practice was not called "vaporware" at the time, but publications have since used the word to refer specifically to it.

January 2000 passed without a Venus release, and the product remained "vaporware".

Somehow I've finally become tired of all those "news" about vaporware products that end up being released way too late to stay relevant.

Due to this, the title was subject to intense speculation and won several vaporware awards.

Then he had received that program from Vaporware Limited.

Most software products are not released on time, according to researchers who studied the causes and effects of vaporware in 2001.