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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NT hoax or about Microsoft ethics (was Re: MS grasping at straws?...
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 02:14:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul14.134444.19331@engage.pko.dec.com> ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes:
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- >BTW I think your definition of vaporware is too broad. Simply because someone
- >preannounces a product -- for whatever reason -- does not, to me, indicate
- >vaporware. The product has to be substantially behind the point the developer
- >seems to indicate. For example, is Quattro Pro for Windows vaporware? Certainly
- >it was announced in advanced, and clearly to head off Lotus 1-2-3/W. And
- >QP/W is late. But is it so late that it's vaporware? I can guarantee you that
- >the product does in fact exist and will ship, so I hesitate to call it vapor-
- >ware. Now MS C++ was vaporware for a long time.
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- I always thought "vaporware" was something that has been promised for
- a long time but will never ship for some reason or other, so far from
- delivery that it might as well not ship. As far as net flame wars go
- this would be the only definition that would matter unless one wants
- to engage in pointless name calling. If something is delayed, even
- seriously delayed, call it a delayed product. Calling it Vaporware
- implies it will never ship.
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