Actually, Windows Millenium is considered universally and unbiasedly as THE worst MS OS. It was considered as an early released XP
HOME, from wich are absent the multiuser component, NT core and NTFS native parsing, though NTFS can be supported but more with a hack. Real MS-DOS was already stripped in ME.
I'd suggest using Windows XP Home Edition instead, for a dual boot (if he's got a somewhat beaten computer, wouldnt make sense to use XP Pro on such turtles), but since I expect he's using XP to begin with, 2 same OSes wouldnt be very useful.
for upgrade:
WinME => XP Home (home desktop use)
Win2000 => XP Pro (server stuff, administration...)
Last edited by Hard core Rikki; August 21st, 2006 at 16:14.
Reason: Speaking about functionalties. WinME => XP Home / Win2000 => XP Pro