> I sometimes wonder if Microsoft should have made W2K a consumer release, rather than waiting until XP to give us a real operating system on PCs They were wor

> I sometimes wonder if Microsoft should have made W2K a consumer release, rather than waiting until XP to give us a real operating system on PCs They were working on one! There's even a leaked build of it before it got rolled into XP: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_Neptune_build_5111.1 https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_Neptune_build_5111.1 This is total speculation on my part, but the change in direction had to do with moving away from IE and toward dot-NET, so maybe it was DOJ trial related? The Neptune UI seemed to be very "HTML Application" focused, and the bits that made it into XP reflect that, e.g. the new login screen, Activity Centers, the Help & Support Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application