Rather wait a few months for Microsoft's bug fixes to filter through. There's been an extraordinary amount of hype around Windows 2000, the kind only Microsoft knows how to drum up. Once you get it up and running, it's steady, almost crash proof. A great 'hibernate' feature means you can power-up your PC with Windows already running. An operating system does all the invisible maintenance work like driving the monitor and the hard drive, figuring what bits of information go into which pigeonholes in the memory, and making sure your wordprocessor doesn't fight with your spreadsheet.
Server is of interest only to techies who converse in acronyms.
Nothing, at first glance. The icons are a tad smarter, menus dissolve on screen rather than popping out, and, if you look real close, the floating program windows are more 3Dish. But under the hood and out of your sight, Windows 2000 is a completely different animal. NT was designed for no-fun, earnest personalities. It is hopeless for playing games and most multimedia software.