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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.

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than MicrosoftNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

People compare Microsoft with

From Google searches like “microsoft vs mac”, with searches a month.

1 of the 60 sites closest to Microsoft matches.

  1. 01
    Slack slack.com Top 1K English EU-registeredFree plan 1 tracker

    Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools

    Boost productivity and save time with Slack‌ — ‌the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.

    Compare Slack with Microsoft →

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.

  1. ~ 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
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
159 ms

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