vaporware UK /ˈveɪpəwɛə/US /ˈveɪpəɹˌwɛɹ/ noun1 •An advertised product, often computer software, the launch of which has not happened yet and might not ever happen.Our hard-and-fast rule was that if we couldn't see it, it still resided in that special zone called "Vaporware." — 1983