🆚 Microsoft Word vs. NetBeans

📈 Microsoft Word is much more popular than NetBeans.
🌍 Microsoft Word is more popular in all countries.
⭐ NetBeans is particularly popular in Spain.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Microsoft Word

NetBeans

Type

Tool

HTML editor

About

Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.

It provides rich text editing with advanced formatting, templates and styles, spell check and grammar assistance, tables and graphics insertion, document layout controls, and collaboration features such as real-time co-authoring and comments.

NetBeans is an open-source integrated development environment primarily used for Java application development.

It provides advanced code editing and refactoring, built-in debugging and profiling tools, GUI designers, native support for Maven and Gradle, version control integration, and additional support for languages such as PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and C and C++.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

microsoft.com #3

netbeans.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Microsoft Word tool is 907 times more popular than NetBeans.

Total websites

Market share

HTML Editors

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Microsoft Word is more popular than NetBeans in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Italy

France

Russia

Australia

Japan

Brazil

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the HTML Editors category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the HTML Editors category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the HTML Editors category.
🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Tools category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Tools category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Microsoft Word is more popular than NetBeans in all market segments.

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Entertainment

Personal Pages

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Blogs/Wiki

Public Information

Sports

Recreation/Hobbies

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

dhi-edu.com

#57,724

bible.ca

#83,577

jnjonlineauction.com

#94,616

unclaimedproperty.com

#111,263

citroenet.org.uk

#114,701

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Name

Rank

benitomovieposter.com

#272,701

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🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.