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Why use Windows instead of BSD? Ease of use, that should be obvious.
Also, no, Windows 2000 doesn't have the bloat of XP, even with Service Pack 4. Security updates don't generally add more features to the system, so could not be considered "bloat" by any stretch of the imagination. Even XP's Service Pack 2 only added a couple of actual features (most notably the security centre). The bloat comes from things like the flashy shell, unnecessary services and such, which are in there from the get-go.