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Microsoft Windows

Who runs Microsoft Windows, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest desktop operating system alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: ChromeOS

Measured from Microsoft Windows’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 Windows

Microsoft Windows windows.com

Experience the latest Microsoft Windows 11 features. Learn how our latest Windows OS gives you more ways to work, play and create.

Wikidata: family of computer operating systems developed by Microsoft

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Microsoft Windows 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.

tracker that follows visitors

7 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Adobe Experience Platform TagsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Microsoft Windows

Fewer trackers than Microsoft Windows No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Microsoft Windows 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 Windows 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 · 6 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 47 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/remote-resource-center/articles/scripts/Jquery.js…
Tag managers: Adobe Experience Platform Tags asset https://assets.adobedtm.com/5ef092d1efb5/e6b4ca74378c/launch-ENbb9d0de7cc374dc99259df2c4b…
Languages & backends: ASP.NET cookie ASP.NET_SessionId
DNS hosting: Azure DNS NS ns2-205.azure-dns.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ioCM5aKUAjBy9Z8Or81O6eQagwr_unGdyGJ0V8II7QM
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=d65hkhpulntsek90x3rt1cqq4y06tk

Sitemaps

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.