Meh. I think he was fudging a bit
He stuck WinME in there as a "skip" after Win2K. That doesn't make sense. Win2K was the successor to WinNT. WinME was the last of the Win9x line. They were two different codebases. I remember hearing complaints about Win2K, mainly about security. If I remember correctly, the most virulent worms took advantage of exploits on Win2K. So it would've been more like:
WinNT - OK. I have to reboot once a week, but OK
Win2K - (Say hello to my little friend.) AHHH!
WinXP - Nice, but a few bugs here and th... Oh crap!
WinXP SP 2 - Nice!
and then what he said...
I remember developers saying at the time that XP SP 2 was like a whole new OS release. It was that significant a difference.
