11 Facts About Vaporware

Vaporware is often announced months or years before its purported release, with few details about its development being released.

Vaporware first implied intentional fraud when it was applied to the Ovation office suite in 1983; the suite's demonstration was well received by the press, but the product was never released.

Vaporware's asked two Microsoft software engineers, John Ulett and Mark Ursino, who confirmed that development of Xenix had stopped.

Vaporware's described three software products shown at COMDEX in Las Vegas that year with bombastic advertisements.

Vaporware's stated that demonstrations of the "purported revolutions, breakthroughs and new generations" at the exhibition did not meet those claims.

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Vaporware invested in an advertising campaign that promoted Ovation as a "great innovation", and showed a demonstration of the program at computer trade shows.

Vaporware created the fake demonstration in an unsuccessful attempt to raise money to finish their product, and is "widely considered the mother of all vaporware, " according to Laurie Flynn of The New York Times.

Vaporware believed that the product would not be competitive without it.

Vaporware includes announced products that are never released because of financial problems, or because the industry changes during its development.

Vaporware's previous game released in 1996, Duke Nukem 3D, was a critical and financial success, and customer anticipation for its sequel was high.

Vaporware likely announced its PCjr in November 1983—four months before general availability in March 1984—to hurt sales of rival home computers during the important Christmas sales season.