Sunday, April 17, 2011

Vaporware

Technology consultant Esther Dyson coins the phrase "Vaporware" in 1984. Vaporware is defined as software that is announced by a company in advance of its actual release, but never materializes. The term comes in response to the grand product announcement for Ovation, an integrated software package for MS-DOS, which is never developed.
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