Windows 2000 | A Forgotten Marvel
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So, what should be considered the greatest operating system of all time? There is a lot of ongoing debate surrounding this question, and you’ll get different answers from every person. But arguably the most popular consensus is that it was Windows XP, the version of Windows released by Microsoft in 2001. It was flexible, versatile, and..just nostalgic. And then you have another vocal crowd saying it was Windows 7, with its slick design, fast and stable environment, and its popularization of the “search bar,” a tool most of us take for granted today. And then you have those *really* bold people who will claim it was Windows 8.1, which further built on to all these things: The last Windows that “valued privacy.”
And these are all valid opinions to have: but what if it goes deeper than that? What about the OS that directly made all their respective great achievements possible? The OS that everyone seems to forget about? Of course, I am talking about Windows 2000. Although primarily marketed as the “business” version of Windows, it was also a clear indicator that things were changing, and that Microsoft was ready for the future. A new millennium, a new Windows. The OS was quite well received and experienced some success during the first two years of its reign, eventually even holding majority market share. And as great and ambitious as this all sounds, the tale of Windows 2000 is a bit tragic in that another similarly named, Windows Millennium Edition, was released at around the same time. Having the “greatest OS of all time” juxtaposed with the “worst OS of all time” certainly hasn’t helped its presence in the spotlight. Although this distinction may not have confused as many people at the time, it certainly does now in retrospect. This has caused Windows 2000’s achievements to be overshadowed, which was further accelerated by the release of Windows XP two years later. But today, we are going to make this distinction crystal clear by highlighting its development, the incredible features it introduced and influenced, and give Windows 2000 the reputation it deserves.
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Ahh yes, Windowsn't 6:58
Windows 2000 was the peak of balance for a Microsoft business operating system. Sadly, XP was the start of the Bull****ification of Windows NT. Microsoft opting for gummy interfaces and forcing business users to swallow all the consumer crap is what has now made their newest offering (Windows 11) an unusable disaster for so many business users. There needs to be a split again, not in regards to the core OS, but with the interface, a business option without all the bundled crap that is now forced down everyone's throats with every new build. I must have got a full decade out of 2000, and have been missing more and more about it with every new release.
We had 98se at home and then XP. I only used Windows 2000 in school where they had it for several years.
It was an EXCELLENT version. I used a pirated JP version back in the day even well into the XP generation because I fucking hated how XP looked by default. The only single issue I ever had with it was that on my computer, with several drivers, the ATAPI layer caused trouble, so when I tried to burn a CD, it would work, but it would stop everything else. The computer became unusable until it stopped burning. When I needed to burn dvds later in life I had to switch to XP because of that until I moved to a Mac.
Agree! Windows 2000 was my favorite windows version for all the reasons you’ve mentioned.
The fact that I forgot about windows 2000 when I got into most of my favorite things that year is a bit embarassing, recently (as in this year basically) I started to remember when we upgraded to 2000 and how reliable it was before the XP days.
though I do now remember that it did break a couple of my DOS games, though, even at the time that wasn't a big deal since I had more than enough "modern" games at the time to fill that gap.
it's 2023 now so make linux videos pls <3
Anyone who thinks windows 8 was the best OS needs a lobotomy
windows vista was the OS of all time
Windows95
Moving from BSODs on 9xs to stability OF 2000 it was the most drastic change. XP IMHO is 2000+ eye candy
I remember when XP premiered it looked like a toy for me – W2k user.
I ran 2000 on every build newer than a Pentium III right up until the release of Windows 7. There was just nothing else like it at the time if you needed to run windows software and games. Wine on Linux was still a curiosity and 99% of the time it Just Worked(tm). Uptime measured in months. No inexplicable BSODs or bloat, no need to reinstall it every 12 months, no ugly plastic interface.
I greatly miss early 2000’s windows. Full of personality and simple, No bloatware and spyware and the mysterious yet adventurous feeling you get is priceless
7 was amazing! XP hung constantly the second you accessed the CD drive, so it's hardware model sucked. A model shared by 2000.
Ubuntu 8.04 was the best.
I will not stand for this Windows ME hate. I'm here to spread the Windows ME love, this slander will not stand. ME is always the go to OS to mock when 98 first edition and Vista exist
"Vegan leather" 😂
My PC I used in 2000 wouldn't run Windows 2000… My father's $1899 PC supported it. But he ran Windows ME because the hard drive doesn't support NTFS…
I grew up on XP so I think that it is the best windows XPerience.
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I think a big reason for why Microsoft went with a DOS-based mainstream Windows release in 1995 is better compatibility with much of the software dating all the way back to the 1980s. It was important, that your average mainstream consumer, who didn't have priority business access to customer support, had their old programs and hardware running with as few problems as possible.
If I've understood correctly, there's tons of oddities still present in modern Windows, that is there just to provide compatibility for some old outdated things from the past. Being the dominant player in the market, it seems backwards compatibility has long played a big part in Windows, which I find pretty cool.