Comment by lproven
1 day ago
> for those who were already using NT-based Windows at the time,
Exactly! Well said.
It was shockingly better than Win98/ME but not if you were already running NT. Then, it was a step backwards.
1 day ago
> for those who were already using NT-based Windows at the time,
Exactly! Well said.
It was shockingly better than Win98/ME but not if you were already running NT. Then, it was a step backwards.
The advantage XP had targeting consumers was that gaming peripheral makers were more interested in developing drivers for XP. Win2k itself was pretty stable but its hardware support was suboptimal and its DOS emulation needed some work.
Win2k was excellent if it did everything you needed from it, though. XP had some advantages (like better search capabilities) but most of them came later in the form of service packs.