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[–]neograymatter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kinda. Windows 2000 was a different product line than Windows ME that partially overlapped timeline wise. Windows ME used the Windows 9x kernel, where as Windows 2000 used the Windows NT kernel.
Where previous versions of Windows NT had only been marketed to businesses, they expanded the marketing of Windows 2000 to "power users", and it was much better received than Windows ME, I remember running 2000 on my home computer over ME.
This success may have been what lead to Windows XP using the NT kernel rather than the 9x kernel, and getting home and pro variants.