Is Windows Vista Like Windows 2000 or Windows ME?
Windows ME was the last gasp of the Windows 9x model. It came out seven months after Windows 2000, but failed miserably while Windows 2000 provided a nice upgrade from Windows 98, and a quick stepping stone to Windows XP, Microsoft's most popular and well received OS ever.
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2000? Bridge?
Mr. Gaskin please go back and look at the geneology of Windows again. Windows 2000 was an upgrade from NT 4.0 not a bridge between 98 and XP. Like 4.0 and XP Windows is built on the NTFS file system not a piggy back GUI for DOS.Vista is the most secure Operating System Microsoft has put out to date. The issues the Operating System had are the same ones XP had in its first version. Driver compatiblity will always be an issue as long as the hardware manufactures lag behind development. This is true with any Windows or Linux product. For the most part Apple doesn't have this issue since it refuses to license any other company to build computers that uses the Apple OS.