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vaporware (VAY-per-wair) - n., new software or other product that has been announced or marketed but has not been produced.
It's not even software, it's pure vapor. Sometimes invented on the fly by Sales, who then insist that Development then create it. Coined in 1982 by a Microsoft engineer, either John Ulett and Mark Ursino (the account is unclear which), in conversation with Ann Winblad, president of Open Systems Accounting Software, in connection with the Xenix OS, and popularized by Esther Dyson starting in the November 1983 issue of her newsletter.
---L.
It's not even software, it's pure vapor. Sometimes invented on the fly by Sales, who then insist that Development then create it. Coined in 1982 by a Microsoft engineer, either John Ulett and Mark Ursino (the account is unclear which), in conversation with Ann Winblad, president of Open Systems Accounting Software, in connection with the Xenix OS, and popularized by Esther Dyson starting in the November 1983 issue of her newsletter.
---L.
