Re: The ONLY things going for it were
the gold standard of Windows Operating systems until XP was released.
Win 2k peed all over every other MS os well into xp's lifespan for getting actual work done just because it had the decent kernel and UI and less of the power-sapping bloat that the consumer-targeted OS's have.
I personally didn't move over to XP from 2k for quite a while just because I couldn't afford the ram required for a long time.