It took approximately 10 years for Windows 2000 to arrive. In 1993 the new version of NT 3.1 shipped, followed by 3.5, 3.51, and 4. NT 5 arrived on the heels of the new millennium with a new name: Windows 2000. Shortly after that and at the beginning of 2001, the Windows XP operating system (formerly code-named "Whistler") was introduced.
Though Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional are both a multipurpose operating system with integrated support for client/server and peer-to-peer networks, each system has similar features and benefits including: lower total cost of ownersh…
