Vaporware

As a vaporware product shall be known, whose delivery date was repeatedly postponed indefinitely or never realized.

Origin

The term vapor comes from English and means " steam ". German descriptions are nothing but " hot air" or " much ado about nothing ". The term became popular when the published by the International Data Group InfoWorld magazine in November 1985 the Golden Vaporware Award to Bill Gates for the delay of Microsoft Windows forgave the Alexic Hotel in Las Vegas 1.0.

Vaporware Awards

The Vaporware Award is a negative price for the announced but not completed at the time specified hardware or software products. The U.S. magazine Wired published annually since 1996, the list of the most famous in his readers ten vaporware products. A well-known award winner is Duke Nukem Forever, a game that was announced in 1997 and until his actual appearance in 2011 of multiple " Vaporware of the Year" title holder of Wired magazine was.