Details of Microsoft's New Analytics Tool Leaked

hhavensteincw writes "Details of Microsoft's answer to Google's Analytics have leaked online. Screenshots have been posted on the Net of the new "Gatineau" Web analytics tool that Microsoft now says will be available in beta this summer. In a blog post, Microsoft's Ian Thomas also reveals that Microsoft will use Live ID (formerly Microsoft Passport) profiles to get its demographic data."

Re:Live ID for demographics

[Darundal]

Anyone using a Livespace, anyone with an Xbox Live account (pretty sure about that one, not entirely however), almost anyone on any forum for a company owned by Microsoft (Bungie, for example), and the list goes on.

Re:Reasons why this will fail

[edlinfan]

The name sucks.

Considering that this is a leak, I doubt that's the final name.

It uses Microsoft Passport

MS Passport, like it or not, is steadily becoming more common. A /. regular might loathe Passport and avoid it, but Joe Sixpack will sign up so he can get a Hotmail account or join Xbox Live. Not everyone thinks the way you do.

It's from Microsoft.

If I remember correctly, Microsoft makes a certain operating system with 90%+ market share. It's so successful, it's a monopoly.

Re:Slash-mantra

[Anonymous Coward]

In the same way the open source world is a gushing fountain of invention and customer service?

No.

Between playing catch up with proprietary vendors and a million hair shirt riddles that pass for documentation, you guys ain't got much to boast about. If open source code took its open toe sandal out its open mouth and delivered I might stop laughing like an open drain. C'mon, walking around with your eyes shut and spouting the Slash-mantra doesn't make it so.

Ooooh, someone needs a wank!

Re:Is it just me...

[RightSaidFred99]

It's just you. ActiveX was reasonably successful, and of course neither it nor OLE have anything to do with DirectX. DirectX is wildly successful. .NET is very successful in the real world (as opposed to the fairy tale land most of you live in).

But yeah, they have renamed Messenger a few times.

Re:Gatineau

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, Hull became known as Gatineau in 2002 when the cities of Gatineau, Hull, Aylmer, Buckingham, and Mason-Angers were all amalgamated. Pretty much everyone who lives in the area still refers to Hull as Hull not Gatineau and most road signs in Ottawa directing you to the city still read Hull.

Re:Reasons why this will fail

[dimeglio]

I think the city and the park's name originate from the river's name. A 300km river is hardly "tiny."