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==Notes==

==Notes==

*Due to a legal settlement involving Sun Microsystems, Windows 2000 is not offically available for download.  The only places it is offered are [http://osdirectdownload.blogspot.com/2014/05/download-windows-2000-iso-file-for-free.html sources with questionable intent and security].

*Due to a legal settlement involving Sun Microsystems, Windows 2000 is not offically available for download.  The only places it is offered are sources with questionable intent and security.

*Windows 2000 was the last [[Windows]] [[operating system]] to use the "boxy" grey skin by default.  All later versions used a "fancier" style, while sometimes offering the Pre-[[Windows XP]] skin as a selectable option

*Windows 2000 was the last [[Windows]] [[operating system]] to use the "boxy" grey skin by default.  All later versions used a "fancier" style, while sometimes offering the Pre-[[Windows XP]] skin as a selectable option

*A planned consumer version for Windows 2000, code name [[Windows Neptune|Neptune]], had a similar UI but was canceled.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/07/win2000.idg/index.html Windows 2000 beta due early next year]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAaQdXIJ1k Windows Codename 'Neptune': "The XP That Never Was..."]</ref>

*A planned consumer version for Windows 2000, code name [[Windows Neptune|Neptune]], had a similar UI but was canceled.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/07/win2000.idg/index.html Windows 2000 beta due early next year]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAaQdXIJ1k Windows Codename 'Neptune': "The XP That Never Was..."]</ref>