Original: Released on 17 February 2000 , Gates Ushers in Next Generation of PC Computing With Launch of Windows 2000 it was the successor to Windows NT 4.0 , and is the final release of Microsoft Windows to display the '' Windows NT '' designation .
Simplified: Windows 2000 supports the Windows NT filesystem NTFS 5 , the Encrypted File System ( EFS ) , as well as basic and dynamic disk storage .