Vista Capable Suit Updates

A good source for news on the Vista Capable lawsuit and other news Microsoft is Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  There are interesting and provocative notes on the suit, and links to documents when available.  There are other little details that show up like the March 19th entry that showed these search statistics for 2008:

Google: January, 58.5 percent; February, 59.2 percent.
Yahoo: January, 22.2 percent; February, 21.6 percent.
Microsoft: January, 9.8 percent; February, 9.6 percent.
Ask Network: January, 4.5 percent; February, 4.6 percent

Microsoft could buy Ask in addition to Yahoo! and still wouldn't come that close to Google's share of the search market.  I ask again how a combined company is going to accomplish something they can't do separately