Windows 2000 is some kind of apex in the Windows OS abstract space. I remember being in the beta programme back in the second half of 1999 and being amazed at h

Windows 2000 is some kind of apex in the Windows OS abstract space. I remember being in the beta programme back in the second half of 1999 and being amazed at how solid it was even then. (I was a home user but I’d been bitten by the BeOS bug so I had a dual PIII-450 system, and since I had then-newfangled USB ports that NT 4.0 didn’t support I was virtually compelled to adopt 2k even in its unfinished state if I wanted to run Windows apps and partake of the SMP facilities.)