Different between KB and Q?

[morganpugh84]

This might be a really stupid question but I cannot find the answer.

What is different between a Q### update and and KB### update from Microsoft? I can't seem to find any information on this. Does a patch have to be of a certain kind or something?

This is really annoying me so someone PLEASE tell me :p :D

[Storm]

What? Even YOU Dont know it?

[MetaLRasaM]

ya..what is it? i donnu either:Shmmm...silly ms! is playin mind games with us!

[morganpugh84]

  StOrM said:

What? Even YOU Dont know it?

Cheeky git :p ;)

It isn't fair you are on half term but I am still at work at it is 19:33 :cry: Ahh well I have millions of pounds worth of hardware and software to play with :p

rights lets get back on topic... anyone know?

[+John Teacake MVC]

Yeah I'd like to know as well its probably something simple. On a side note deadmonkey your job sounds good what do you do ?

[morganpugh84]

  Sawyer12 said:

On a side note deadmonkey your job sounds good what do you do ?

lab administrator. Basically an administrator that does a bit of anything, not just a sysadmin but also a networkadmin, etc. it is better than my odl sysadmin job though as i got bored of just computers and wanted to learn more about networking which isn't always what a sysadmin gets to do (sysadmin's tend to only play with client and server stuff not routers, etc.)

[Zetter]

It's explained on detail (more than any normal person would ever want to know) here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbnumb

In summary Q is the old system, KB is the new one

EDIT: copy and paste URL in browser as th [ ] bit mucks it up

[CrispCreations]

The Q ### naming convention applied to US-English articles. Articles in other languages began with a different letter, and sometimes had a different reference number. In 2002, MS decided to standardise the whole format, so they now all have a KB in front instead, and articles in all languages now have the same reference number. Which is why you sometimes see the Q reference but when you search on it it points to it's KB equivalent. Now all articles have the same KB reference no matter what language you use, and dependent on your language settings you will see the one relevent to you.

Hope that made sense :wacko:

:)

edit: and if I'd know there was an article on it, I could have saved some typing - cheers Zetter (Y) ;) :rolleyes:

[morganpugh84]

Thank you all very much :yes: