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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 3707986" data-attributes="member: 11999">Windows ME was another iteration of the 95/98 code base.  Windows 2000 was originally planned as the integration of the NT codebase with the consumer OS but that ended up being mostly scrapped and XP was where it happened.  XP was mostly Windows 2000 with a new GUI and enhanced backwards compatibility; Windows 2000 is NT 5.0, and XP is NT 5.1.  Vista gets the 6.0 designation.Main problem with Vista is that older computers don't handle it very well, and hardware manufacturers do a lousy job of updating drivers for non-current hardware.  The exact same problems we're seeing with Vista now happened with Windows XP back in 2001, and the way people talk about XP is pretty much identical to the way people talked about Windows 98 or 2000 (whichever they had) at the time.</blockquote>