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Only the consumer line that ended at Windows ME. The Windows NT line, which subsumed the consumer line starting at Windows 2000, always used its own bootloader
by a-priori 9y ago
Only the consumer line that ended at Windows ME.
The Windows NT line, which subsumed the consumer line starting at Windows 2000, always used its own bootloader. So has Windows CE.
- laumars 9y agoWell yes, clearly. That's why I used past tense rather than saying "still uses" and why I didn't mention NT nor CE (I also didn't mention Microsoft BASIC nor Xenix - just so you know they didn't use DOS as a bootloader either :P). I figured the context was obvious given the audience of HN, but clearly not. Anyhow, my point was just to reinforce the GP's point that it's ok to think about DOS as a bootloader because Microsoft have done exactly this themselves.