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vapourware

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UK spelling of "vaporware".
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So let's take a look at the weird, whacky world of vapourware in the following list and take a look inside the great big world of the 'what if':
And like Microsoft, Google's announcement was vapourware. The freshest search results on Google appear in its blog search service (http://blogsearch.google.com).
It is largely vapourware at the moment, which means it works better in Power Point than in reality.
VAPOURWARE - Currently applicable to the PlayStation 2 game list - products announced far in advance of any release, which may or may not actually take place.
The game was scheduled to release in 1997, and since then has baited fans with tantalizing images and videos, and, received five vapourware awards, including a lifetime achievement award.
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