To put it blunt XP is "Micro$oft Big Brother Bloatware". 2000 will do anything that XP does without all the bloatware and spyware, a lot of tech sites have compared the two and say 2000 is slightly faster. But you asked about 98 lol. Like someone else said, 98 is still being installed on new computers, it still runs everything and it doesn't try to dominate \ dictate everything you do or use like XP does