List of vaporware

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Wired magazine has an annual "Vaporware Award" with a list of software it considers vaporware. [1] This page is an incomplete list of known examples of vaporware, in alphabetical order by product name:

[edit] List of vaporware

[edit] Surfaced vaporware

Products which once were considered to be Vaporware which eventually surfaced after a prolonged time:

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Vaporware: Better Late Than Never", Wired, February 6, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Ladies and gents, welcome to the 2005 Vaporware Awards -- the prize that celebrates the tech products that were promised last year but never delivered." 
  2. ^ [1]. ign.com
  3. ^ "Famous Vaporware Products", BYTE. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  4. ^ SNES CD-ROM extension. Nintendoland.com
  5. ^ Blizzard Postpones StarCraft: Ghost Indefinitely, GameSpy March 24, 2006 (retrieved March 25, 2006)
  6. ^ Vantine Corporation securities litigation
  7. ^ a b "Vaporware 2000: Missing Inaction", Wired, 2001. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "The bona fide beginning of the new millennium is almost upon us, but some things never change: The tech industry continues to whip up excitement by promising amazing new technologies, only to crush our spirits by delaying, postponing, pushing back or otherwise derailing the arrival of said goods -- sometimes indefinitely." 
  8. ^ "Vaporware '99: The 'Winners'", Wired, 2000. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "The last year of the last decade before 2000 has come and gone, but the Vaporware 1999 "winners" are still a dream to some, and a nightmare to others." 
  9. ^ "Vaporware 2002: Tech up in Smoke?", Wired, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "As 2002 ends, there is a lot of unfinished business in various corners of the tech world. We are referring, of course, to vaporware: hot, must-have products promised but never delivered." 
  10. ^ "Vaporware 1998: Windows NT Wins", Wired, 1999. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Each December, Wired News petitions its readers for the year's most egregious examples of vaporware. This time last year, our research team was busily running down broken promises, empty hype, and slipping ship-dates all over the technology kingdom." 
  11. ^ "Vaporware 2001: Empty Promises", Wired, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. "Whatever you like to call it -- the New Economy, the Dot-Com Economy, the Clinton Years -- one thing is now clear about the period of prosperity that began in the mid-'90s and was snuffed out early last year." 
  12. ^ First impressions - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Eurogamer
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