Dell has lost its bid to trademark the buzzword “cloud computing.” The USPTO declared “cloud computing” to be a generic term largely because of Dell hardly being top of mind when thinking of “cloud computing.” Cloud computing is a broad category – and nobody thinks of Dell when it comes to cloud computing – maybe you think of Amazon (the S3 service) or Salesforce (they have done the awareness campaigns), but not Dell.

Dell’s application was officially rejected mid-August: check out this article: The Register.

Also, check out Microsoft’s Cloud offering: https://www.mesh.com/Welcome/LearnMore.aspx And we would like to thank the development company for using Silverlight in the product tour – we have seen too many Microsoft projects done with Flash. We love Flash and we love Silverlight – but please, if you are doing work for Microsoft and you don’t have Silverlight developers, give us a call!