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One category · what the models named instead

Alternatives to Microsoft, as AI models named them

In the November 2026 Edition, 79 of the 252 answers collected in the one category where Microsoft holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
Signal5
Zoom Workplace5
Cisco Webex2
Jitsi2
Jitsi Meet2
Big Blue Button1
First choices in the 79 answers that did not name Microsoft, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Video conferencing

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Microsoft is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessMicrosoft is #3 of 10 here at 23% of first choices, 74 labels.

Twenty-five of the eighty-four answers did not name Microsoft; it was the first choice in sixteen. The first choices in those twenty-five answers, four products in all:

Zoom Workplace4 of 25Head to head →
Google Meet1 of 25Head to head →
Jitsi1 of 25
Jitsi Meet1 of 25
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketMicrosoft is #3 of 8 here at 17% of first choices, 70 labels.

Twenty-nine of the eighty-four answers did not name Microsoft; it was the first choice in ten. The first choices in those twenty-nine answers, three products in all:

Signal5 of 29
Jitsi Meet1 of 29
Zoom Workplace1 of 29Head to head →
The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseMicrosoft is #1 of 7 here at 64% of first choices, 69 labels.

Twenty-five of the eighty-four answers did not name Microsoft; it was the first choice in forty-six. The first choices in those twenty-five answers, four products in all:

Cisco Webex2 of 25
Big Blue Button1 of 25
Jitsi1 of 25
TrueConf Server1 of 25
The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of fourteen models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is eighty-four answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Microsoft neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Microsoft only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Microsoft's side.

The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Microsoft was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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