Web Analytics From Microsoft
Microsoft has an upcoming free web analytics tool code named Gatineau. The Gatienue project page is located here. You can sign up for an invitation to be a beta teaster. However, you have to create an adCenter, the Microsoft version of the Google’s Adsense, account for $5 if you don’t have one.
This is a direct challenge to Google’s Analytics. Few year ago we would have believed that Microsoft could cause damage to Google just it did during the early days of the web. However, that stage has passed. Microsoft is now only an OS and Office application company. Gatineau is still a threat to independent on-demand web analytics vendors.
Gatineau will end up as an analytics tool for the adCenter customers. It will not be as popular as Google Analytics.
