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java.user... I think you are mistaken...

LU-147560>>Transparent windowing... (been around bit longer than 5.10 but still in context of your question!)<<

Yep, it has been around for awhile. Win2k included this as well.
It has? How come I have never seen it... ever on any Win2K install? And I have been using Win2K off and on since it's beta release in 1999.

>>True multi-user capability...<<
Ah what he is talking about is the ability to have multiple users logged into a single machine simulteneously, I think.

Well, technically Windows has had this since NT, but 2000 was the first consumer version to include it.

>>Multiple desktops... not a sad attempt either!<<

Again, NT was first, but we'll give 2000 the nod again. In fact, 2000 also included network loadable desktops ("roaming profiles"). Unless of course this is referring to multi-desktop switching? In which case I don't think any version of Windows has this although XP has fast-user switching.
Uh right, sorry but I think Unix had these well before either Linux or Windows. That and he is referring to the ability of KDE, Gnome, XFCE and several other window managers that have multiple desktop capabilities. As for WinXP fast user switching... it's anything but on anything less than a 2.4GHz 1GB RAM system, I know I have tried it and it sucks and is nowhere near as fast as the Linux or Mac implementations, which have their roots in Unix.

The only things on the list that Win2k didn't (doesn't) have are:
-Thin client integration
-64-bit PowerPC kernel available (in fact, I don't think any 64 bit version of Win2k exists at all, though I could be wrong)
-Launchpad Integration

But these things are more of a conceptual choice than code limitations as you can see that no version of Windows subsequent to 2000 include (or even have plans to include) any of the above.
That would be because the new Windows does plan to have (well it did at one time, now who knows what you poor people will get?) and there is no further development on the Win2K kernel / system, for that matter with the advent of XP the Win2K systems all stopped for feature enhancements and are now in maintainence phase soon to be in the boneyard phase according to Microsodft.

So Win98 was probably a bit too far off, but if he had said Win2k, it's a pretty close comparison.
No WinXP would be a closer comparrison and even then WinXP is behind Linux and Mac in several areas. The only area that Windows is better is with multi-media... that's it.

Some other things that Linux User 147560 failed to mention, no need for defrag... ever. Linux file systems are designed to do so on the fly and have been doing it since kernel V.0.1. Theoretically the NTFS is supposed to do this... that's why I have to defrag my WinXP box at the office every week or two and my Win2K at home every 2 weeks.

Also there is no need for AV except to protect Windows users.
Superior security model, based on the Unix model.

Bottom line for some (such as myself and several others in this forum) Linux is a choice that works and works well. For some, Windows and that is fine. I support them all. Windows desktops are my meat and potatoes, and Linux servers are my bread and butter. So I could really care less, I make money off both but prefer to use Linux.

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