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Who runs Windows Live, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest webmail service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- mail.com
Measured from Windows Live’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Windows Live01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Windows Live
Windows Live live.com
Wikidata: former brand name for Microsoft online services
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Windows Live tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Windows Live’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Windows Live
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Windows Live, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read live.com’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
Free email accounts | Register today at mail.com
Email how it is supposed to be: ✔ Free, simple and secure ✔ Manage multiple mail accounts in one place, from any device ✔ Sign up today!
Very close - 02
Proton: Privacy by default
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
Close - 03
iCloud
Log in to iCloud to access your photos, mail, notes, documents and more. Sign in with your Apple Account or create a new account to start using Apple services.
Close - 04
Email and calendar made better | Fastmail
Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.
Very close - 05 office365.com Top 1K
subscription to a range of office software products from Microsoft
Very close - 06
Zoho | Cloud-Software-Suite für Unternehmen
Eine einzigartige und leistungsstarke Software-Suite, die Ihre Arbeitsweise verändert. Entwickelt für Unternehmen jeder Größe; von einem Unternehmen gebaut, das Ihre Privatsphäre schätzt.
Close - 07
Free Email Accounts @GMX.com: Secure & easy to use
Personal & professional email ➤ 100% free ➤ spam filter ➤ Convenient mail collector ➤ Mobile app ➤ Register with GMX today.
Very close - 08
IceWarp — Business Email & Collaboration Suite Made in the EU
Business email, TeamChat, video conferencing and document collaboration in one platform. Cloud, on-prem or hybrid. Trusted by 50,000+ businesses. From $1.35/user/mo.
Very close - 09
free email client and personal information manager
Very close - 10
Microsoft 365 - Sign into Copilot
Microsoft 365 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive, with Microsoft Copilot built in to help you create, communicate, and summarize information. Formerly Office 365.
Very close - 11
Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta
Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.
Close - 12
GroupMe | Group chat app
Group text messaging to every phone. The easy way to connect with all the groups in your life, big and small.
Very close - 13
Email & SMS Marketing Platform | Mailchimp
Utilize real-time user behavior data and artificial intelligence to convert more customers. Easy to use, get started for free!
Very close - 14
Open Standards | Low-Risk Alternative | Data Sovereignty | Zimbra
Zimbra: A Cloud-Hosted Collaboration Software and Email Platform That Integrates With Proprietary Business Solutions
Very close - 15
Web Hosting Built to Grow With You | hosting.com
Web hosting that takes you from idea to website to a lasting business. Fast and secure, with free migration, real experts 24/7 and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Very close - 16
Alinto - Email Solutions Provider
Discover Alinto, email solutions for organisations and service providers. ensure the deliverability, management and the security of your emails.
Very close - 17
Home | Open-Xchange
productivity software suite
Very close - 18
home.pl: Nr 1 w Polsce. Domeny, Hosting, Serwery WWW, Strony, Sklepy
Od 25 lat budujemy polski internet. home.pl jest największym w Polsce dostawcą usług internetowych. Dołącz do grona naszych zadowolonych klientów.
Very close - 19
Bitrix24 ist ein kostenfreier Online-Arbeitsplatz für Ihr Unternehmen: CRM, Aufgaben, Online-Termine und vieles mehr.
Die All-in-One Lösung von Bitrix24 hilft Ihnen dabei, Ihre Teams zu verwalten und den Vertrieb voranzutreiben. Bitrix24 lässt sich hervorragend in Ihre Geschäftsprozesse integrieren und sorgt für deren hochgenaue und effiziente Verwaltung.
Very close - 20
Search - Microsoft Bing
Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Windows Live’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Windows Live uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Windows Live adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Windows Live’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 include:spf-a.hotmail.com include:spf-b.hotmail.com include:sp…
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns3-37.azure-dns.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=N9kowue62gCm511Op0_N2LO1JZTcjA2GYzOE22SBaiI
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=atvthxwtzc3u4ubnsozavn76cusuaj
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on live.com 6/20
- nginx · not on live.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on live.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- HubSpot · not on live.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on live.com 5/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on live.com 4/20
- Tailwind CSS · not on live.com 3/20
- Azure DNS 3/20
- PHP · not on live.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on live.com 3/20
- Google Workspace · not on live.com 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on live.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on live.com 3/20