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Index › Vendors › Microsoft Autopatch / Intune · September 2026 Edition

Microsoft · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Microsoft Autopatch / Intune

2Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

1 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Autopatch / Intune was named 2 times in Patching, where Action1 led with 27%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market64 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In patching · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Microsoft Autopatch / Intune for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	64 of 87	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Autopatch / Intune yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Microsoft Autopatch / Intune across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Already on Microsoft 365 and want free Windows patching | Microsoft Autopatch / Intune” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Limited macOS/Linux support unless add-ons are purchased; breadth is limited at scale” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Autopatch / Intune, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Autopatch / Intune was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NinjaOne1 of 21Not in the top three

Action11 of 20Not in the top three

Heimdal Security1 of 20Not in the top three

LogMeIn Resolve1 of 20Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus1 of 20Not in the top three

Motadata ServiceOps1 of 20Not in the top three

N-able N-central1 of 20Not in the top three

Robin1 of 20Not in the top three

Syxsense1 of 20Not in the top three

Windows Server Update Services1 of 20Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Microsoft Autopatch / Intune. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Microsoft Autopatch / Intune and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

heimdalsecurity.com2

motadata.com2

acronis.com1

adaptiva.com1

aimultiple.com1

automox.com1

connectwise.com1

cyberpress.org1

f5.com1

gbhackers.com1

Twelve of the twelve domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Autopatch / Intune came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software2

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software2

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-20261

adaptiva.com/blog/4-common-failures-patch-management-broken1

aimultiple.com/patch-management-software1

automox.com/blog/vulnerability-vs-patch-management1

connectwise.com/blog/patch-management-challenges1

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-21

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft Autopatch / Intune

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Autopatch / Intune; a claim can dispute any of them.

Microsoft Autopatch/Intune 1

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