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Bill Gates Received “Golden Vaporware Award” for Cheating Industry

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"Microsoft is well-versed in the use of vaporware tactics
to dampen interest in the products of its competitors.
Microsoft’s use of vaporware traces back to the very origins
of the company, when Bill Gates informed MITS the
manufacturer of the world’s first PC that he had a version
of BASIC ready to run on the first personal computer, when
he had yet to write a single line of code. See Consolidated
Statement of Facts, ¶ 5. Gates received a mock honor of
the “Golden Vaporware Award” for his preannouncement of the
first version of Windows to preempt entry by VisiOn, a GUI
announced in 1983 when by 1985 it still had not shipped. See
R. Prentice, supra n.3, at 1181 (attached). When Microsoft
entered into the Consent Decree with the DOJ in 1994, Judge
Sporkin refused to enter it based on the DOJ’s refusal to
address Microsoft’s rampant vaporware practices. See United
States v. Microsoft, 159 F.R.D. 318, 334-36 (D.D.C. 1995),
rev’d, 56 F.3d 1448 (D.C. Cir. 1995) (finding district court
to have exceeded permissible scope of review)."

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/10/injuries-to-industry-vaporware/
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