Open Source Vs Microsoft

I don't know who will win but OpenSource is gaining inch by inch. And OpenSource is getting better and better.

i am sure in bussiness its Microsoft.its is only one organization and the managed by a small group and so they will win in the race. open soure is is not controlled by one it is spread in the whole world so this question is waste

Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, Harvard Business School professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell decided to dive in. Most research to date into the OSS movement has focused on the organization and management issues surrounding OSS. Ghemawat and Casadesus-Masanell chose to explore the fundamental competitive dynamics question: Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows, which has just been accepted for publication in a special issue of Management Science. Ultimately, the authors believe, neither side is likely to be forced from the battlefield—Microsoft has too much market share and OSS offers too many benefits for users. But there are strategies each can use successfully against the other, as they detail in this e-mail interview.

sorry dont know

I don't think we can predict that, each one has the power to be win the competition, if we talk opensource should be win because they are free and the other reason bla bla bla, than we could say microsoft could win also, if they gettin bigger and bigger and one day they think , its time to start to entering the world of free and opensource also, than what would you think ? you may said it imposibble thought, nothing imposibble in this kind of world i think, they just thinking how change how they get money from make you bought the OS to other way (may be adverstising method or the other way)

Open Source is doing well but it will take time to beat Mirosoft as they are uncrowned kings in the feild.

my guess is microsoft which win the market.

I think Microsoft will win the market.

Definately in the wrong run, it would be Open Source and we will see even Microsoft opting for it soon.

the future is looking a little grim for microsoft right now but they might fight back