Lesson plan
Microsoft Knowledge Base
Microsoft Knowledge Base (MSKB) was a website repository of over 150,000 articles made available to the public by Microsoft Corporation for technical support. It contained information on many problems encountered by users of Microsoft products. Each article bore an ID number and articles were often referred to by their Knowledge Base (KB) ID. Microsoft Windows update names typically start with the letters "KB", in reference to the specific article on that issue. Previously, the letter "Q" was used. As of 2020, Microsoft began to discontinue the Knowledge Base service. Some content was migrated to the learn.microsoft.com sub-site. URL of particular KB article with number had one of those format: * http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us; Qnumber * http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us; number * http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q number * http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ number and lot of KB articles are archived on the Wayback Machine. kbalertz.com was a website that provided email alerts of new articles, although Microsoft had also provided a similar service. Updates and patches are named using the Microsoft KB numbers of the corresponding Microsoft Knowledge Base article. The KB numbers do not contain any decipherable information and are assigned sequentially and uniquely. This means that a higher number indicates a more recent release date.
Article summary
Microsoft Knowledge Base (MSKB) was a website repository of over 150,000 articles made available to the public by Microsoft Corporation for technical support. It contained information on many problems encountered by users of Microsoft products. Each article bore an ID number and articles were often referred to by their Knowledge Base (KB) ID. Microsoft Windows update names typically start with the letters "KB", in reference to the specific article on that issue. Previously, the letter "Q" was used. As of 2020, Microsoft began to discontinue the Knowledge Base service. Some content was migrated to the learn.microsoft.com sub-site. URL of particular KB article with number had one of those format: * http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us; Qnumber * http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us; number * http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q number * http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ number and lot of KB articles are archived on the Wayback Machine. kbalertz.com was a website that provided email alerts of new articles, although Microsoft had also provided a similar service. Updates and patches are named using the Microsoft KB numbers of the corresponding Microsoft Knowledge Base article. The KB numbers do not contain any decipherable information and are assigned sequentially and uniquely. This means that a higher number indicates a more recent release date.
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Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.