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No. XP is based on the WIndows 2000 kernal. It's basically Windows 2000 with what MS considered a more user-friendly interface. There are plenty of things you can do to raise your computers performance with windows XP. I suspect if you disable a lot of services, including the indexing service and the system restore service, you'll see a lot of gains. If you folks who hate XP dow some research you can find plenty of ways to increase your performance without losing all of the consumer friendly advances that XP has that 2000 does not.

EXACTLY! I administer a corporate network with about 65 workstations - ALL running Windows XP Professional for about the last 8 months with no problems whatsoever. For the machines that have older hardware, I simply turned off the visual eye candy portions of XP that slow it down. Now, those PCs look and feel just like Windows 2000.

I've been in this business for 8 years now and have used every version of Windows in that time. There has been only one Microsoft operating system - Windows Millenium - which has ever been a "downgrade candidate" in my eyes. That OS was a complete piece of garbage. XP, however, offers awesome plug and play support, networking support (can you say "never have to reboot after changing a network setting"), manageability, security, and for the hardcore gamer like me, it is the best gaming experience available.

I'm not knocking 2000 at all - I love that operating system. I just can't see the need to bash Microsoft over the newer product. It seems that most people who have problems with XP always somehow get around to mentioning product activation, which is (1) a legitimate way for a company to protect its digital property, and (2) easy to bypass if you are really annoyed by it and do a little digging for solutions.