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---------The product was listed without a ship date during a presentation Tuesday by Microsoft server and tools boss Eric Rudder at the company's Professional Developer Conference here.---------

vaporware

/vay'pr-weir/ Products announced far in advance of
any release (which may or may not actually take place). The
term came from Atari users and was later applied by
Infoworld to Microsoft's continuous lying about Microsoft
Windows.

See also brochureware.

It Fits.



-------- "Fresh eyes on code are one of the best ways to do security reviews," he said.---------

Isn't this what the M$ shills scoff about? I do expect all you M$ shills to contact your M$ rep immediately and lodge a complaint.



It certainly appears M$ is attempting to follow in the footsteps of OSS. They will not be successful. Their greedy mindset won't allow it. If longsong development followed the open source model it wouldn't be released until all bugs were worked out.

M$ production software is the equivalent of pre-alpha in the OSS world.



How many employees have been terminated since 2000 just so id10t paper mcse types can keep jumping on the next M$ crapware? Of course, it does have a bright side, for them. They can blame their incompetence on 'migration' problems. As long as they are always in migration mode they are able to keep managers fooled about their lack of skill.

Face it, paper tigers, if you need a GUI and a wizard to configure a server you need to be barred from the server room.
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from the mouth of redmond:  ryusen | 10/28/03
This hits the sweet spot...  Mike Cox | 10/28/03
Message has been deleted.  kray_z | 10/28/03
Security techniques?  Richard Flude | 10/28/03
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY STUPID!  Cardinal_Bill | 10/28/03
That's easy  kray_z | 10/28/03
Because..  Delaware Boy | 10/29/03
We'll try it when it arrives . . .Till then, LONGHORN IS JUST VAPORWARE !!!  Plain Logic | 10/28/03
And in the mean time  kray_z | 10/28/03
Vaporware, Vaporware, Vaporware  zd-spam | 10/29/03
Not everyone does everything in VI.  Delaware Boy | 10/29/03

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