Windows On Windows @windowsonwindows.com · Dec 19 Following Windows NT 4’s release in 1996, Microsoft focused work on its successor: Windows NT 5. In 1998, Microsoft announced NT 5’s final name would be Windows 2000, “reflecting our customers’ choice of NT as the mainstream OS”. But many alternative names were also considered.
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glad they didn't go with 99, that would have been terribly confusing
Windows NT 98, Just so that the 2000 name can be used on ME.
Technically its both and neither - NT 5.00 in the version and 2000 Professional for the end user, non servers