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Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.

XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

On NT you mean, and no, W2K was a consumer system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

On NT you mean

Whoops! Yes, NT.

But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.

[...]

and no, W2K was a consumer system.

W2K was most definitely not built with consumers in mind; the base edition was "Professional" and was meant to be a workstation OS. It was a bit of an oddball in that a not-insignificant amount of power users preferred it at home over 98/Me - but it was a business-oriented system first and foremost. XP added a lot of features over 2000, including more consumer-oriented tools and applications. That's why I specified XP as "the first real consumer version".

Personal anecdote: When I was in jr high, the "family PC" was a Toshiba laptop loaded with W2K, and compared to the W98 system we had before, 2000 was certainly not meant for "regular" home users. That's what Me was supposed to be, but we all know how that went... IMO, I'm almost certain that the downfall of Me, paired with W2K being as good as it was at the time, was part of the driving force for MS to base future consumer versions on the NT kernel.