> > Jim writes:
> >
> > I see in ComputerWorld that EDS is upgrading all of their desktops
> >  to Windows 98 because they say that MS told them that Windows 95
> >  will not be Y2K-compliant and that there will be no migration path
> >  from Windows 95 to Windows 2000.
> >
> >  Can one (or more) of the Windows experts here clarify this for me?
>
> Ok, I guess now I am confused as well.  I remember reading that one
> could upgrade from 95 to 98 or beyond, if your version of 95 was osr2
> or later.  I guess the vast majority of 95 boxes have the 16-bit
> version of 95 where osr2 and later were 32-bit os's.
>
> Hate to add to the confusion.  Anyone else?

On the subject of Windows 2000:

One can upgrade a Windows 98 machine to Windows 2000 Professional (was NT
5.0).  There have been no *definitive* plans, that I know of anyway, to
exclude Win95 from upgrading to 2000 but this would be a two-step upgrade,
and more than likely frowned upon.

This was the rumor with Win98 as well - folks still on Win 3.x could not
upgrade to Windows 98, but Microsoft put the code in during the technical
beta to provide for that.  Whether this will be true for a Win95 to Windows
2000 Professional or not, remains to be seen.

(This is all I can say without being shot, flogged and otherwise have other
nasty things happen :)

As for whether Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT and Windows/2000 are Y2K
compliant, see Microsoft's site - they have a whole portion of their site
dedicated to it, and as to where patches can be found and downloaded - FOR
FREE :)

Cheers,
Joe (ain't breakin' my NDA over this ;)