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Steve Parker says << Fear, Unceartainty, Doubt. Often related to something like Microsoft announcing that they writing a new package years before it ships to confuse the market and keep them from buying a competitors [probably superior] product in the meantime. They will also announce a huge and rich feature set only to throw out half of it before it ships. In the meantime it allows the vaporware product to take marketshare away from competitors who can't really compete against something that doesn't exist yet. >> No, that does not quite catch the normal usage. Here you are complaining about vaporware, which is not the same as FUD. Not to me anyway. FUD is when you create non-justifiable worries about something. FOr example Microsoft might say Well we could remove Explorer using the remove feature, but we cannot guarantee that Win95 works if you do this. Yes, we understand that it *seems* to work, but that may be an illusion, we just can't guarantee anything if you do that. Or a sales person might say. Well you have to be careful about using free software, I have heard stories of people losing their shirts because of problems with patents that were violated. Or you might say: You have to be careful with machines like the TP770, the batteries might fall out :-) :-)