Vaporware
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Techopedia Explains Vaporware
Some attribute the origin of this term to the 1980s Microsoft project Xenix, a Unix-based system that was eventually released but was significantly delayed. Other prominent examples of vaporware are successive versions of video games like "Duke Nukem" and "Diablo", which never surfaced as promised, as well as some types of software and networking technologies. More recently, some have used the term in reference to various kinds of cloud computing products.Advertisement
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