Neil McAllister

Articles by Neil McAllister

10 programming languages that could shake up IT

Neil McAllister - January 6, 2012

Some new programming languages we may be seeing in the near future

Sneak Peek: Microsoft Office Web Apps

Neil McAllister - September 18, 2009

Microsoft's Technical Preview of Web-based editions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint shows that Google is in for a fight...

Linux too fragmented to succeed?

Neil McAllister - April 26, 2009

Unlike Windows or Mac OS X, each of which is the product of a single vendor, Linux comes in many different distributions that target the desktop. So far, the ideal Linux desktop remains a moving target

Linux could lose in war for free and open multimedia

Neil McAllister - January 3, 2007

Multimedia has always been a difficult challenge for Linux, owing to the quagmire of proprietary codecs and file formats and the accompanying patents that protect them