shelfware

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A piece of software that has never been used at all since its creation.
 * 2) A piece of software created for the sole purpose of being immediately shelved.
 * 3) Software purchased but not used.

Quotations



 * 1994 Silver, L and Marin, I : "Software Use and Disuse: From Shelfware to Improved Software Utilization" in Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings, Special Sessions, pp. 975-975(1)
 * All too often, software that has been purchased is not used. A term has emerged to describe this phenomenon, "shelfware."