On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 00:11:50 +1000, Dave Horsfall <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, David Maxwell wrote: > > > For years, Microsoft has had a policy of announcing products that don't > > exist yet, to cause customers to stop buying a competitor's product. > > That's Vapourware. > > Hah - M$ is new at that game. IBM did it for years back in the 70s. IBM was even better at it than that - the acronym FUD came about to describe the IBM tactic of telling customers that a 3rd party something might not work within the context of IBM's latest "future direction" whitepaper. (Note that these were clearly *NOT* product announcements, but were specifically "We're going THIS way" statements). Most of the time, the IBM salescritters were at least reasonably good about only spreading FUD based on already-released future direction statements (but I've seen the occasional forward reference to an upcoming statement. ;)
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