Windows 2000 was a bug riddled, poorly architected punching bag for malware.
Things definitely went up-hill AFTER Windows 2000.
What on earth would cause someone to say Windows 2000 was a good release? It wasn't even a good release when it came out, and it definitely didn't stand the test of time.
Windows 2000 was the last version where Dave Cutler was fully in charge of Windows.
Things started going downhill after that.
Windows 2000 was a bug riddled, poorly architected punching bag for malware.
Things definitely went up-hill AFTER Windows 2000.
What on earth would cause someone to say Windows 2000 was a good release? It wasn't even a good release when it came out, and it definitely didn't stand the test of time.
> What on earth would cause someone to say Windows 2000 was a good release?
An unsubstantiated insistence that a single human being is the bus factor for a thousand-engineer org?
I'm just as confused as you, everyone I've ever met who liked Windows 2000 went on to love XP SP3, usually with the W2K skin on it.
7 was pretty good. But I may be looking through the glasses of nostalgia and my love for the frutiger aero style
XP was arguably better.