Actually, it's called vaporware. It's related to FUD, but it's not the same.
What they are saying is "don't port your corporate applications that require IE to other browsers and don't standardize on them. Our next version will be much better than theirs and it's just around the corner. We promise".
A couple days ago they announced their Courier tablet was canned. If you remember when it was leaked, the timing of the leak was to coincide with an Apple announcement everybody suspected would be of a tablet computer. The message was "Ours will be much cooler. You don't have to consider buying hardware that doesn't reinforce your dependency on Windows".
What they are saying is "don't port your corporate applications that require IE to other browsers and don't standardize on them. Our next version will be much better than theirs and it's just around the corner. We promise".
A couple days ago they announced their Courier tablet was canned. If you remember when it was leaked, the timing of the leak was to coincide with an Apple announcement everybody suspected would be of a tablet computer. The message was "Ours will be much cooler. You don't have to consider buying hardware that doesn't reinforce your dependency on Windows".