Windows 2000/Talk

Actually, it isn't completely correct to say that XP is the successor to 2000. XP is the successor to 9x/Me? and NT Professional, but there is currently no successor to the Windows 2000 server products. "Windows Server .Net" or some similar foolishness, is currently, I think, in beta 3. To say that XP is the successor to 2000 over-emphasizes the role of 2000 as a desktop operating system and under-emphasizes it as a network operating system.