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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
None of the 60 sites closest to Microsoft match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
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