Not from what I've seen. It crashes much more than Windows 2000 (which it is supposedly based on).
Bingo. It wasn't a coincidence that when Service Pack 2 for Win2K was finally made available, fixing some of the problems experienced by gamers and heavy graphics users, Windows XP was suddenly ready for release. If you check the benchmarking numbers at ZDNET.com, Win2K comes out cleaner and faster than Win XP. Win 2K even runs Microsoft Office faster than Win XP. Essentially, Win XP is Win 2K with a snazzy new look and a few extra bells and whistles (extra apps) thrown in to distinguish the two. The main difference, for me, is that Win 2K doesn't have the intrusive "authentication" software that monitors the and transmits the system configuration to Microsoft via the internet, shutting down the OS if the computer changes radically enough to look like a new machine.