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Q (followed by up to six digits)

A Microsoft KnowledgeBase article number. Article numbers do not have leading zeroes. For reasons which are unclear, in November 2002 Microsoft started to drop the prefix on new KnowledgeBase articles and will eventually drop it completely. Therefore if you cannot access an article by quoting its number with the Q prefix, try it without the Q.

Q+E

See QBE.

QB

Quick BASIC. See BASIC.

QBE

Query By Example. I think this is a method of specifying which records within a database should be displayed. Also sometimes abbreviated Q+E.

QBW

QuickBooks for Windows, a program published by Intuit.

QFE

Quick Fix Engineering. Microsoft marketing/management-speak for what honest people would call an update, patch, bug fix, bodge or frig. The name is particularly ironic since many modern Microsoft patches are not tested and therefore do not fix problems but create them.

QoS

Quality of Service. QoS can be measured in various ways depending on what facility is being measured, percentage uptime being a common choice.

QT

File extension. Apple QuickTime (see that entry).

Query

  1. A command which extracts a subset of the information in a database, according to some criteria.

  2. See "View".

Question Mark

? (see that entry).

Quick BASIC

See BASIC.

Quick Launch Bar

The set of icons usually displayed on the Taskbar to the immediate right of the Start button when Internet Explorer V4's "New Desktop" option is installed. Since the icons are visible whenever the Taskbar is displayed, they provide very rapid and convenient access to your most commonly used programs.

QuickTime

A video file format and associated program (published by Apple). Often used by other programs as a means of playing video files (for example, in Myst and Riven). Sadly the different versions of QuickTime are incompatible, making for much pain if you have different programs installed which require different versions. Files intended for use with all versions have the same extension, QT - not a clever idea.

Quote

  1. Single quote, also called an apostrophe: ' .

  2. Double quote: " (see that entry).
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