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by hi-v-rocknroll 638 days ago
Windows 2000 ("NT 5") was the most usable of that era (just a bit later). It was stable, solid, and had a responsive UI.
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It was the first NT to have DirectX. It was the best of both worlds NT and 9x. Then the decline started.
WinXP was mostly a cosmetic upgrade on Win2K right? AFAIR there strictly were no technical reasons why Win2K wouldn't be able to run XP software, only stuff like version checks and what not