0 a computer program that is advertised but is not yet or is never made available
1 → vapourware
As a result, the title was subject to intense speculation and won several vaporware awards.
The game has also won a wide variety of vaporware awards.
After a number of such vaporware announcements, the third-party developers started becoming upset.
Used fairly frequently in the computing community, particularly for marketing divisions of companies in response to frequent vaporware announcements and other unrealistic claims.
Vaporware is also a term sometimes used to describe events that are announced or predicted, never officially cancelled, but never intended to happen.
Vaporware also includes announced products that are never released because of financial problems, or because the industry changes during its development.
A company known for vaporware can improve its reputation.
Vaporware, sometimes synonymous with vaportalk in the 1980s, has no single definition.