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vaporware

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va·por·ware  (vpr-wâr)
n.
New software that has been announced or marketed but has not been produced.
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lt;p>While promising to be "respectful" and not outright trash the mysterious Chrome OS, Ballmer did point out that Google's desktop operating system won't ship for a year and a half, a fact that relegates it to the vaporware category for now.
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But if big banks are capable of being sold this kind of vaporware, God knows what kinds of flaws are hiding in catastrophe risk investment vehicles being sold to investors.
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The Prius is practical (midsize family car), affordable (just over $20K to start), economical (45 miles per gallon), reliable (Toyota), and unlike Chevy's vaporware Volt, available.
5 to drive in 2008 by Farago, Robert / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
 
 
 
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