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What is vaporware?

What is vaporware? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (computing) An advertised product, often computer software, whose launch has not happened yet and might not ever happen.
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The pat-down story was the equivalent of vaporware — it seemed as if something huge was about to happen, but it turned out that it was a story about a story, the noisy, fervent sound of a news system feeding on itself.
The primary problem was the cumbersome laptop, and enterprise handheld computing was still vaporware at the time.
Many CRM vendors were slinging their solutions to customers that were simply not ready for them, and the result gave CRM solutions the mistaken reputation as vaporware.
It might end up as vaporware or simply not live up to the awesome impression that publishers can gin up in a short, canned demonstration.
While some have accused the product of being vaporware, it certainly is getting plenty of attention.
On the other hand, a wonderful sounding but completely vaporware offer from the usual suspects.

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