Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 54 → 64 of 64
1 category · RankedWindows Server Update Services
44Judge labels
0First choices
29Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Patching for mid-market buyers
Rank 82 of 85 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 47% of its 17 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Windows Server Update Services →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business68 of 69
0%14 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market82 of 85
0%17 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise96 of 96
0%13 labels
criticized challenger
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 Windows Server Update Services 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 82 of 85 | 47% | 17 | criticized challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Windows Server Update Services held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Patching · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 11 → 75 of 79
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 68 → 94 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patching | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 11 → 82 of 85 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Windows Server Update Services across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Windows Server Update Services across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative22 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 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.
“free with Windows Server but is limited to Microsoft/Windows updates only, has weak reporting, and poor automation” Kimi K2 · Patching · budget prompt · alternative
“Consider using OS-native tools (like Microsoft Intune, WSUS, Jamf, or Linux's unattended-upgrades)” Mistral Small · Patching · negative prompt · alternative
“If you're all-Windows and have a server, try WSUS first.” Grok 4.20 · Patching · budget prompt · alternative
“WSUS is a free, native option” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · comparative 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.
“Microsoft deprecated WSUS in September 2024... Sticking with WSUS long-term means relying on a stagnant platform” Kimi K2 · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative
“Verdict: Avoid WSUS unless you have a $0 budget, are entirely on-premises” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative
“it is a limited Windows-only catalog. It does not natively handle third-party applications, macOS or Linux, provides limited reporting for auditors” Muse Glimmer 30B · Patching · negative prompt · soft negative
“WSUS is notoriously clunky to maintain, requires hands-on administration, and does not natively patch third-party applications” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Windows Server Update Services, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Windows Server Update Services was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Windows Server Update Services, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Windows Server Update Services was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Windows Server Update Services. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 41 of the 44 answers that named Windows Server Update Services and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
action1.com22
acronis.com19
heimdalsecurity.com19
motadata.com18
learn.g2.com15
automox.com14
g2.com14
expertinsights.com13
manageengine.com13
ninjaone.com13
160 of the 160 domain citations in answers naming Windows Server Update Services came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
microsoft.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Windows Server Update Services takes 0% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
microsoft.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Windows Server Update Services takes 0% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “patch management tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “patch management tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“windows server update services”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 5 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 145,358,109 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,421,769 · 793,520 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,904,433
- Paid Google search
- 56 searches its ads show for, about 705 clicks and $12,455 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 82 of 85 in patching
Segment leader
29%
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 44 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 41 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on microsoft.com
10,448
subdomains included
Content
146
counted in the table below
Documentation
10
Product · Integration
1,142 · 20
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 44 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 30 | undated | |||
| News or press | 27 | 10 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Blog | 25 | 4 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Case study | 12 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 0 | 2025-12-02 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page microsoft.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Windows Server Update Services
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Windows Server Update Services; a claim can dispute any of them.
WSUS 5WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) 5Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 2Microsoft WSUS 1Microsoft WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) 1Microsoft WSUS/Intune 1WSUS / MECM 1WSUS standalone 1
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- where Windows Server Update Services is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Windows Server Update Services, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.