[kbenson]

> I’d love to go back to Windows 2000

While better than Windows 9X, Windows 2000 was also horrendous with regard to security. That was the era where Windows saw so many exploits and worms, and their security practices so lax that because they started the firewall a few seconds after starting the network interfaces when booting, if you were connected to the internet without a separate firewall on boot (fairly common at that time) it was likely you would be infected by a worm in that few seconds of unprotected networking.

Anyone around at that time will remember the rampant worms infecting large swaths of the internet connected Windows machines. Code Red. Sasser. Blaster. Slammer/Sapphire.