They tried upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP, hoping that it would work like upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 did, but it didn’t. Then they reali

They tried upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP, hoping that it would work like upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 did, but it didn’t. Then they realized that upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 and then to Windows XP might work, and it did. It’s important to realize that Windows XP was the successor both to the NT line (Windows NT/2000) as well as to the DOS-based consumer-oriented line (Windows 95/98/ME), hence upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP is the natural path, whereas upgrading to Windows 2000 in between is kind of a detour.