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If you have tried to join the beta for Microsoft’s new Gatineau Analytics Tool without any luck, I have good news. The new beta round is starting, the only catch is you have to be an advertiser with adCenter, the Microsoft version of Google Adwords.

This might be a small obstacle if you currently do not use paid search for your startup, in which you might want to wait for the public release. Here are a few words from the adCenter blog:

“With the Gatineau beta, you can learn more about where your visitors come from and easily measure your marketing campaigns across any medium and from any traffic source.

Features include:

• Click and visitor tracking reports
• Marketing campaign reporting and conversion tracking
• Unique demographic and geographic information from your site visitors

Of course, Project Gatineau is a beta service so we are still adding features and working hard to improve.”

Visit the Gatineau page to sign-up for the new beta.

As new screen shots of Microsofts up coming analytics software named Gatineau are being released, we are still anxiously awaiting an invite to the beta. Reports from around the blogosphere are the beta should launch sometime this week.

Startup Hustle is looking forward to a competitor to Google Analytics. The more data points you can use in your analytics research the better. Plus we want to see if Microsoft can provide a better challenge with Gatineau that it did with adCenter.

If you are interested in being part of the Gatineau beta, sign up here.