win 2000

runs great in my soho lan,
continuing to make all the job for user (i.e. non-tweakable, ergo somehow stable)
some games don't work others run smother then w98,
graphic editors, office run slightly faster,
surfing slightly better,
crashing from time to time on non-w2k approved sw,
good memory handling and smarten disk usage,
slow at startup, but if you remove some services, can be acceptable,
I prefer it instead XP, since XP is weird attempt to build desktop OS based on NOS (+ all the things we know about XP),
again - best from micro so far, nice attempt to combine maximum goods from various vendors

Cheers