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**blah789** · 07-02-2009, 05:54 AM

Windows Millenium Edition was a continuation of the Windows 95 / Windows 98 line, which are hybrid 16-bit/32-bit OSes. The "hybridness" of the system made it particularly unstable and prone to crashes.
Windows 2000 was built on Windows NT 4, which was part of Microsoft's line of pure 32-bit OSes. Those were very robust and stable. Think of Windows 2000 as Windows XP minus the eye candy (and a few rough edges - some may call the interface spartan, but I see it as minimalist).

07-02-2009, 05:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
blah789 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,312 OS: Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP3	Re: OS noobie question Windows Millenium Edition was a continuation of the Windows 95 / Windows 98 line, which are hybrid 16-bit/32-bit OSes. The "hybridness" of the system made it particularly unstable and prone to crashes. Windows 2000 was built on Windows NT 4, which was part of Microsoft's line of pure 32-bit OSes. Those were very robust and stable. Think of Windows 2000 as Windows XP minus the eye candy (and a few rough edges - some may call the interface spartan, but I see it as minimalist).