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I would have to say that 98 is faster (generally). Espcially when it comes to simulators. Reason being that 98 allows direct access to the hardware... of course it is far less stable than 2000 and XP.

I vote Win2k since its a bit more mature than XP. Stability would be about the same from my experience. I use XP Pro at home and 2k Pro w/ SP2 at work.