I know that stability was the #1 priority for Win2K. I heard one of the Windows program managers state that under NT, the development team would turn off the computers at night .. it was never left running for long periods of time. That all changed in Win2K. In some cases compatability was sacrificed for stability.

>Craig Mundie, senior vice president for advanced strategies at Microsoft, said that while the Windows XP operating system due for release this fall represents a "quantum improvement in reliability" over previous operating systems, it will require a "fairly heroic leap" to develop a completely stable machine.
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>Mundie explained that stability needs to be looked at "from a 10- to 20-year horizon, and we're only on Year 11 for Windows NT."
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>http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO62980,00.html
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>Strange, my PC hasn't crashed the OS since 1997. Must not be a hardware problem.
>JLK