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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Microsoft matches.
- 01
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Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
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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 and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 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