What’s Vaporware?

Vaporware is any tech product (software or hardware) that is announced or promised and then never gets released, or is canceled. It just evaporates into thin air, with executives giving only vague answers whenever asked about it, if there’s any answer at all. The term was supposedly coined within Microsoft when two engineers described the fate of the Xenix operating system, but more on that later.

Examples of Vaporware
Xenix –  The product that launched the term vaporware was the Xenix operating system,  a Unix variant (Linux is another) licensed by Microsoft for what was supposed to be the company’s first major operating system. However, competition was fierce in this space at the time and several competitors launched Unix variants before Microsoft was able to. It probably didn’t help that Xenix was going to be seriously expensive, costing at least $6,000 in today’s dollars.

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