Microsoft was advertising for audio developers to help them develop a "new dimension in music making." Does that sound like Sonar, seriously?
I think they are probably looking to do something different, something a bit envelope-pushing which enables total newbies to make music and which appeals to the kidz. I don't really see how a 30 year old bug-laden DAW that was popular with the over 50's would be part of that vision.
Even if they bought Sonar's source code, I don't think it would be for anything other than stripping some parts out of it to use in something that would bear no resemblance to Sonar (and I can't see it being backwards compatible with Sonar project files, put it that way).
I get it, "at least we're doing something." I have nothing against people signing a petition, I just think there's looking forward and there's flogging a dead horse.