
An organic art 3D screensaver rendered unique infinite 3D visual shapes. Released on Jas the sequel to the original suite of enhancements for Windows, Plus! 98 included the original set of themes along with 18 new desktop themes, along with new programs and tools for Windows 98.

Windows 98 logo screen with Microsoft Plus! installed. However, it only contains the readme for the program and the Underwater theme. There is also a demo version for Microsoft Plus! for Kids!. It also contained a picture picker along with clipart, fonts, 10 desktop themes, and Protect It!, parental controls for Internet Explorer. Paint It! - a version of Microsoft Paint for kids.Play It! - an electronic keyboard with music and sound effects.Talk It! - a text-to-speech program that says what users type using various voices.This version of Plus! was released in 1997 and targeted at children of ages 12 and under.

Windows 98 included all enhancements introduced in Plus! for Windows 95, although the Pinball game was not installed by default instead, it was included on the Windows 98 CD. Later releases of Windows 95 included DriveSpace 3 and Internet Explorer 3. Plus! for Windows 95 was initially marketed for adding features for high-performance computers, with the minimum system requirements being an 80386 CPU with 8 megabytes of RAM. A utility to notify the user of low disk space (DiskAlm.exe) also ran as part of System Agent. Task Scheduler (then known as System Agent) was included. It included Space Cadet Pinball, the Internet Jumpstart Kit (which was the introduction of Internet Explorer 1.0), DriveSpace 3, and Compression Agent disk compression utilities, the initial release of theme support along with a set of 12 themes, dial-up networking server, dial-up scripting, and graphical improvements such as anti-aliased screen fonts, full-window drag, the ability to stretch or shrink the wallpaper to fit the screen and highcolor icons.


This was the first version of Plus! and had an initial cost of US$49.99. Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus! boot screen
