Which web browser was included with Windows 95 Plus! on August 24, 1995?

Internet Explorer 1.0 was included with Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 on August 24, 1995. It arrived as part of the add-on’s Internet Jumpstart Kit, making Microsoft’s first browser available alongside the launch of Windows 95.

Windows 95 itself was released on August 24, 1995, while Plus! was an optional enhancement pack sold separately. Internet Explorer 1.0 was not originally the deeply integrated Windows component many users later associated with Internet Explorer; it was supplied through Plus! and some contemporaneous OEM installations.

The browser had been built from technology Microsoft licensed from Spyglass. Its early feature set was modest, and Internet Explorer 1.5 followed several months later with support for basic HTML tables in Windows NT. Internet Explorer 2.0 arrived in November 1995 with additions including SSL, cookies, VRML, and newsgroup support.

The usual confusion is with Internet Explorer 3.0, which Microsoft later bundled with Windows 95 OSR2. The launch-day Plus! package specifically contained version 1.0.