<i>if a single company is destined to dominate the future of the Web, I'd damn sight rather it be Microsoft than Facebook</i><p>In an earlier era, it would have been better for it to be anyone <i>but</i> Microsoft. So it doesn't matter who, just as it isn't whoever is the biggest at the time, just to become the same. So no, the only answer is for no one party to dominate.