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Who runs Microsoft, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software and cloud computing alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- IBM
Measured from Microsoft’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Microsoft01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Microsoft
Microsoft microsoft.com
Explore Microsoft products and services and support for your home or business. Shop Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Xbox, Windows, Azure, Surface and more.
Wikidata: American multinational technology corporation
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- First copy in the Internet Archive ↗
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Microsoft 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
13 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Microsoft
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft, thumbs down if it isn’t.
People compare Microsoft with
From Google searches like “microsoft vs mac”, with searches a month.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Microsoft matches.
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Microsoft’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Microsoft uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →What Microsoft changed on its homepage, prices, imprint and open positions, and in the tools it uses. Each change happened between the two dates: the last check that saw the old state and the one that found the new.
- ~ Page Homepage · Nov 6 – 11, 2026 New headings: Save on Microsoft 365 · PC power, tablet portability · Turn up the joy · See you on the Frontier Dropped headings:
Surface Laptop, 13.8-inch (8th Edition) · Go further with Copilot · $ • • • • • • on select Surface Pro, 13-inch (12th Edition) · See you in the work
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 and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,213
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /etc.clientlibs/
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT hubspot-developer-verification=OTQ5NGIwYWEtODNmZi00YWE1LTkyNmQtNDhjMD…
- CDN
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261111T221650Z-17db9fdbcd7msrsfhC1AMS3a2s00000001z0000000…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX microsoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns1-39.azure-dns.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Sn5AwyIdVgkaRaJA/IKj7ZFMnWeCBnppa9bXGLu…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=d5a3737c-c23c-4bd0-9095-d2ff621f2840
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uhh5_jbxpcQgnb-A7gDIjlrr5Ef34lA2t2_BAveYpnk
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=fwzwhbbzwmg5fzgotc2go51olc3566
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-sFtCvKOlWoe31gpoSvs7cqsP
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Adobe · not on microsoft.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on microsoft.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Proofpoint · not on microsoft.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on microsoft.com 6/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on microsoft.com 5/20
- HubSpot 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on microsoft.com 5/20
- Akamai · not on microsoft.com 4/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on microsoft.com 4/20
- Webex · not on microsoft.com 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on microsoft.com 4/20