Comment by shin_lao
1 month ago
Windows 2000 was such a major improvement over NT4 and of course 9x that yes, you're right, it was awesome, but it still had issues and in terms of device drivers future versions brought a lot of things that improved overall stability.
I think the best benefit of Windows 2000 was that the GUI was extremely coherent. Even in Windows 11 for some sub menu and options you sometimes have a Windows 2000 UI popping up out of nowhere.
26 years. You'd think they could update and unify the UI in 26 years. But they would have to care first.
They could, but they change their mind every couple of years. It is a generic problem in SW development. See CADT.
I think it's a backward compatibility problem.