Vaporware

Techies use the term vaporware to describe the products of visualization. ❋ A WORKOUT FOR THE MlND (2003)

The term vaporware has both malign and benign connotations. ❋ Gregory Unruh (2011)

Redefining the term vaporware, research scientists at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore Labs detonated two computer simulations. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I've been attending SHOT Shows for 25 years and I've noticed that vaporware is not uncommon in our industry. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The hate part comes in two flavors: I hate the stories that just gush about some nebulously defined bit of vaporware from a press-release (see this blog entry for an example: Link) and then there're stories like this one, where Elisa Batista covers the new 802. 11a wireless standard, which is nearly five times faster than existing WiFi networks. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Apple rarely gets tagged as a purveyor of "vaporware"--products that get pre-release hype yet never find their way to market. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ghostbusters has never been called vaporware – they were showing screen shots and play samples back when it was first released. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's known as "vaporware," a tactic by which a company announces the launch of a product that doesn't exist yet. ❋ Gregory Unruh (2011)

The epic tale of vaporware, which is comparable to timeline today. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These exotic instruments have magnified the creation of capital investments that are "vaporware", but are honored as if they had some real basis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'd like nothing better than for us skeptics to be proved wrong and see this so-far "vaporware" French infantry battalion be a real combat unit heavily engaged in actual combat operations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of course, as time slips by, the "vaporware" software co. incrementally postpones the release date. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is part of the Airbus Co's equivalent to the software industry's derisive term, "vaporware". ❋ Unknown (2007)

Eclipse's rivals claim that it is selling "vaporware" — drawing investors and customers away from existing manufacturers with promises that it can't fulfill. ❋ Unknown (2001)

To avoid having the turbine be called vaporware, I would say that it’s not quite in the final stages of development. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When I started [Vaporware] Records, I did so with the idea of never making an album but starting [chaos] [none the less]. ❋ Denis Baldwin (2004)

[Duke Nukem Forever] ❋ Wunderbred (2003)

[Streets of Rage] for [X-Box] is an [example] of vaporware. ❋ AYB (2003)

[Show me] what you actually have, I don’t [buy] [vaporware]. ❋ Lawdg (2018)

[Duke Nukem Forever] was first to be made on [the Quake] engine, then the Quake 2 engine, then the [Unreal Engine], then the Unreal warfare engine, its six years past its release date... face it, its never coming out. ❋ Kommando (2004)

_Dammit [Gaben]._ _Y no Half-Life 3 tho?_ _Because it's [vaporware]._ See the A [E S] T E T H I C ❋ Deus Ex Diamond (2019)

[Duke Nukem Forever] has become an [infamous] example of [vaporware]. ❋ The Return Of Light Joker (2008)

Hey is that some Suez [Crisis] Vaporwar? Have you watched the new Vaporwar video released by Majorsamm? [Personally], [Soviet] Vaporwar is the best. ❋ Coom Doompster (2021)

[Xenix], [Half-Life 2]: [Episode] Three are vaporwares. ❋ Uskfbsvds (2021)