It actually works without the special software that was previously required. Late last year, having been told by our Microsoft representative that WIN 2000 will be available in the fall of 99, we did not upgrade from WIN 95. It is getting difficult to purchase additional copies of WIN 95. Nothing ever comes out on time or according to plan. As for WIN 2000, I am convinced that it will not show until next year and all the problems with Y2K have run their course.
Most corporations are up to their armpits in trying to fix millennium problems, real or imagined.
MS is not delaying their software just to aggravate you. There are so many lines of software code involved that the problems are becoming practically unmanageable. It would be easy for MS to write a new and more stable operating system but they are faced with servicing millions of users with existing software. I don't know your business but most of my clients have simply added WIN 98 systems and they interface beautifully with their existing WIN 95 computers, as well as some older Windows 3.1 machines. Where secrecy is required, this can readily be handled by suitable passwords.