The Economist has a great article on the state of the EUs anti-trust case against microsoft, background, and future troubles with google. One interesting comment was 'Microsoft is preparing to use its dominance in web-browser and operating-system software to promote itself in yet another separate market--search engines this time'.

Google's power makes it just the sort of company that Microsoft typically tries to squash. At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Mr Gates admitted that Google's search technology was “way better” than Microsoft's, and identified internet search as a key focus for his company. Microsoft already offers searches through MSN, its web portal. But until this week it had yet to play its trump card: exploiting its dominance of the web-browser and operating-system markets to extend the reach of its search service. That changed on January 26th when it launched a “toolbar” plug-in for its Internet Explorer browser, enabling instant searches (via MSN) from any web page. It is an imitation of Google's toolbar, which has helped to contribute to the search engine's success: on a computer screen, as with real estate, location is everything.

Source: Economist.com

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