Was the font really the only difference between 98 and 2k?
I think the colors and icons were slightly different, but 98 + Tahoma gets you most of the way there.
The greys were slightly brighter and warmer in 2K.
Wow, I initially thought that the first dialog box was a screencap of a "real" one...
Impressive!
Pixel-aligned non-antialiased interfaces make it so much easier to reproduce. Good luck emulating current-gen desktop OS rendering on a different software and hardware stack...
Easy to criticize, hard to actually build something.