i like 2000, its runs on such a wide range of hardware. My grandma has 2000 running on my old 486 DX 2 66mhz (i admire her patience), and My aunt wanted a computer so i put together a pentium 2 400mhz system with win 2000. Its so good. Its takes up a bit more than resources than 98 but isnt as much of a hog as win xp. and AUTODETECTING!!!!!!