2000 was back when NT was a separate thing though, right? Didn't they switch to the NT kernel for everything after that?

Windows 2000 was originally intended to be that. While the official switchover got pushed back (ultimately to XP) that made 2K an extremely capable consumer OS.

Yeah W2K was an oddity that way. I wasn't sure how to fit it in this. But TBH, it wasn't as well adopted as ME or XP and I didn't feel the need to wedge it in there. The point stands, with or without W2K in the mix.

>as well adopted as ME

was ME ever adopted by anyone? I saw more W2K machines than ME back in the day

I think it was preinstalled on a lot of "consumer" machines, the boxes you'd buy did not usually have 2K instead they replaced 98 with ME.

I had one friend with an ME box, and that was the worst POS around, it was so bad.

Everybody else was either 2K or linux.

Enterprise OS built for enterprise needs is > home OS?

quelle surprise.

That's same now as it was, 10 pro/workstation are better than home.