Vaporware Phantom Haunts Us All

Year after year after year, tech companies promise spectacular products that twinkle and shine in demos and press releases, but slowly begin to fade and dim as the promised release dates near.

Welcome to the shadowy, spectral world of vaporware, a product purgatory where goods are promised, but not delivered.

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Sometimes if you stay on top of releases like vapor ware...you can catch them offering a prerelease copy and download it free and the programs are acually good, some of course suck...sometimes funding runs out, or someone else releases a simular product that kills the one they were working on. I used to have a grand collection of vapor ware releases and they burned in my house, since I have not had the time to fool with looking. Best way to locat what will be great is by going to download sites like downloads.com,tucows,....any of the major sites and see what the top downloads are, once in a while a new title appears with big download numbers...that is usually a rising star.