Open Source One

At Microsoft’s upcoming MIX10 conference, which starts on Monday of next week, the company plans to discuss Internet Explorer 9, its Windows Phone 7 initiatives, and an open source analytics framework for applications built with Microsoft Silverlight. In a blog post , Microsoft officials describe the open source offering as a “new extensible framework for integrating web analytics into Silverlight applications,” and say “see how it addresses the challenge of tracking out-of-browser and offline application and supporting multiple analytics services simultaneously.” Mary-Jo Foley has confirmed that the software framework is open source, and writes: “MIX 10 will be a showcase for Silverlight, especially Silverlight 4, which is due to ship in the first half of 2010