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Started by Spaceman3750, May 09, 2011, 06:59:54 PM

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Spaceman3750

Quote from: jimmydeanno on May 10, 2011, 11:25:20 PM
In traditional MS fashion, every other generation of OS seems to be the one to get:  3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista/Mojave  :P, Win 7

So where does Windows 2000 fit into that?

Eclipse

Quote from: Spaceman3750 on May 11, 2011, 12:32:23 PM
Quote from: jimmydeanno on May 10, 2011, 11:25:20 PM
In traditional MS fashion, every other generation of OS seems to be the one to get:  3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista/Mojave  :P, Win 7

So where does Windows 2000 fit into that?

In and around the area NT goes.  Neither was ready for prime time until 3-4 rounds of service packs, though I still have machines running 2k.

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davidsinn

Quote from: Eclipse on May 11, 2011, 01:33:44 PM
Quote from: Spaceman3750 on May 11, 2011, 12:32:23 PM
Quote from: jimmydeanno on May 10, 2011, 11:25:20 PM
In traditional MS fashion, every other generation of OS seems to be the one to get:  3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista/Mojave  :P , Win 7

So where does Windows 2000 fit into that?

In and around the area NT goes.  Neither was ready for prime time until 3-4 rounds of service packs, though I still have machines running 2k.

XP didn't really become awesome until SP2...
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David Sinn

JeffDG

Quote from: Spaceman3750 on May 11, 2011, 12:32:23 PM
Quote from: jimmydeanno on May 10, 2011, 11:25:20 PM
In traditional MS fashion, every other generation of OS seems to be the one to get:  3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista/Mojave  :P, Win 7

So where does Windows 2000 fit into that?
In reality, the progression stopped with ME.  There is a second line of OSs that Starts with NT 3.1-NT 4.0-Win2k-XP-Vista-Win7

XP was much closer, architecturally, to Windows NT than it was to 95/98/ME (shudder)