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> Microsoft is just again using vaporware I've used NATAL. It's not vaporware.

• rbanffy 17y ago
  If they can pull off a Milo and Kate, they are wasting their (and our) time with Windows versions while they could start selling a pocket version of HAL-9000... As for the controllerless controller, have they set a release date yet? Until they do so, I will say it's vaporware. And the same goes for the dual-screen tablet. I think they were aiming towards murkying up the waters of an eventually successful XO2 laptop and ended up with the perfect Newton killer.
  • endtime 17y ago
    >have they set a release date yet? Until they do so, I will say it's vaporware. Okay, fine, but that's not a useful/meaningful definition of vaporware. I certainly have my doubts about Milo. That's being developed by Lionhead though - Peter Molyneux is well known for making unrealistic promises.
    • rbanffy 17y ago
      When you announce an incredibly amazing product that clearly blows what your competition has currently shipping without even as much as a launch date plus or minus a year, it's vaporware. The effect is twofold: it inhibits sales of the competition (who would want a Wii/360 when they could buy an Xbox 360 now and expect this mind-blowing Natal by Christmas?) and takes space on specialized media, limiting the free promotion their competitors could have gotten had Microsoft stuck with realistic products.