Microsoft Knowledge Base was (as of 2020, almost all articles now produce the message : Sorry, page not found) a repository of over 150,000 articles made available to the public by
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation producing Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at th ...
. It contains information on many problems encountered by users of Microsoft products. Each article bears an ID number and articles are often referred to by their Knowledge Base (KB) ID.
Microsoft Windows update names typically start with the letters "KB", this is in reference to the specific article on that issue. Previously, the "Q" letter was used.
kbalertz.com was a website that provided email alerts of new articles,
although Microsoft recently has provided a similar service.
See also
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MSDN Library
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) was the division of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing ...
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Diffbot
Diffbot is a developer of machine learning and computer vision algorithms and public APIs for extracting data from web pages / web scraping to create a knowledge base.
The company has gained interest from its application of computer vision tec ...
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Windows Update
Windows Update is a Microsoft service for the Windows 9x and Windows NT families of operating system, which automates downloading and installing Microsoft Windows software updates over the Internet. The service delivers software updates for Wind ...
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