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it's the same crap as win2k more or less under a skin to make it look totally different. "beware looks can be deceiving" micrcock motto 
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a.) win2k is not crap, between mac os and windows, it's the most stable os i've seen. there is unix, but i like not having to worry about software compatibility.
b.) it's not just windows 2000 with a different skin. if you read articles about it, you'll see that there's a bunch of features (although whether or not they are good or not is debatable), you can read about some of the new features
here.