January 5, 2000: Apple announces Aqua, the new look for their upcoming MacOS X client.
February 17, 2000: Microsoft Windows 2000 (AKA Windows NT 5) becomes available in stores.
Features: The Internet Explorer web browser application finally takes over the Windows NT UI.
October 25, 2001: Microsoft releases Windows XP (AKA Windows NT 5.1)
Features:
Tons of eye candy.
"Product Activation" tethers XP to the existence of the Microsoft corporation.
April 24, 2003: Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003 (AKA Windows NT 5.2 and for a time called "Windows.NET server")
Features:
Drops the eye candy.
Server-only release.
January 2004, ReactOS 0.2.0 is released. ReactOS is a 32-bit Windows clone and can even use Windows NT device drivers. This is the first version to include its GUI shell - ReactOS Explorer. At this point ReactOS is still in early development and can only run very simple Windows applications such as Solitaire.
