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Re:What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 by minkeymaniac on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:51AM (#48587271)
The different kernel for 95/98 was NT 4... Windows 2000 was unified, same UI for Consumer and Server
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Re:What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 by daveoc64 on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:21PM (#48588564)
There is no version of Windows 2000 for consumers.

Windows Me was the nearest consumer release (2000 came out in 1999, Me in 2000), and did share most of the same UI, but was based on Windows 98.

Windows XP was the first version of Windows to ship with the same codebase for both consumer and business.

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Re:What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 by minkeymaniac on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:05PM (#48589128)
Windows 2000 Professional was the non server edition no? That's the one I was running AFAIK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000#Editions

But you might be right by meaning consumer is non business user.. I also ran ME for about 2 weeks lol

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