[Fyron]

Win2k is nowhere near XP in terms of bloat... There was a ton of garbage piled on top of Win2k to make WinXP, with very little in the way of actual improvement of the OS. The only way you could praise XP is if you skipped Win2k, really... Win2k will probably be the Last "decent" OS from Microsoft. It is all downhill from here (not that it was ever at any particularly high point). The only games I have ever had any trouble running in Win2k are old DOS games that require "features" (read: bugs) of Win9x that are not present in the WinNT line. A partition of a few hundred megabytes with Win98 on it works well for such games.