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Microsoft
Who runs Microsoft, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest developer documentation alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Canva
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 msdn.com
Find official documentation, practical know-how, and expert guidance for builders working and troubleshooting in Microsoft products.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not 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
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Microsoft’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Microsoft
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Canva Developers
Build apps and integrations with Canva
Very close - 02
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 03
WebDAV Resources
Central resource site for the WebDAV community.
Very close - 04
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 05
Tech & IT Learning Platform for Teams | Pluralsight
Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.
Very close - 06
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 07
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 08
web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Very close - 09
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 10
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 11
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Very close - 12
Learn JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to Node.js, Fullstack, and Backend | Master.dev
Advance your web development and software engineering skills from front-end to full-stack!
Very close - 13
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 14
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Very close - 15
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 16 softonic.com Top 10K
technology news website
Very close - 17
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 18
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 19
Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees
Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.
Very close - 20
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
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 →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Microsoft 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Microsoft’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
- CDN
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261106T093104Z-r1b66b59fc82dlwkhC1FRAqcbc0000001m70000000…
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns3-06.azure-dns.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=hu32rhwqcnakaw59s20rclcqeudd5a
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on msdn.com 17/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on msdn.com 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on msdn.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on msdn.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on msdn.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on msdn.com 4/20
- Fastly · not on msdn.com 4/20
- nginx · not on msdn.com 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on msdn.com 3/20
- DocuSign · not on msdn.com 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on msdn.com 3/20
- OneTrust · not on msdn.com 3/20
- OpenAI · not on msdn.com 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on msdn.com 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on msdn.com 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on msdn.com 3/20