Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

1.8. Differences Between Windows 98 and Windows 2000

Windows 2000 and Windows 98 are very similar at the API level. In fact, a good way to think about Windows 98 is to think of it as "Windows 2000 Lite." Windows 98 does most of the things that Windows 2000 can do, but there are several capabilities that Windows 2000 has that Windows 98 lacks. In particular, Windows 98 is missing parts of Windows 2000 security system (Chapter 13), Windows 2000 services (Chapter 12), and some Windows 2000 network functionality (Chapter 8). A good way to understand these differences is to compare Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 3.1 and see how they evolved from one another.

Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.1 were built on top of MS-DOS, the Microsoft ...