Using Microsoft Plus!

by Chris Oxlade

Like Honeycutt breaking down Plus! into digestible modules, Hixson takes complex mechanical concepts and makes them approachable through hands-on explanation. Both books share that 1990s enthusiasm for demystifying technology—one for software, one for physics—with the same patient, systematic teaching style that assumes curiosity rather than prior expertise.

by Heinrich von Pierer

This 2014 book traces the actual human stories behind the tools Honeycutt was teaching readers to use—it's the 'why' behind the 'how.' Isaacson writes with the same respect for technical detail that Honeycutt brings to his guide, but zooms out to show how Microsoft Plus! itself fits into decades of computing evolution. It's a natural companion that contextualizes what you were learning.

by David Thomas

While Honeycutt teaches you *what* Plus! does, Thomas teaches you *how to think* like someone who builds these tools. Both books are fundamentally about efficiency and getting the most from your digital environment, but Thomas approaches it from a developer's mindset—practical wisdom about problem-solving that applies whether you're configuring DriveSpace or writing code.

by Shannon Schrein

Here's the curveball: Kimmerer writes about systems and relationships—how everything connects and influences everything else—but through ecology rather than software. If you appreciated Honeycutt's systematic approach to showing how DriveSpace and System Agent work *together*, you'll find Kimmerer doing something similar with natural systems. Both authors are teachers who help you see the architecture underneath what appears simple.

by Michael A. Hiltzik

This book tells the story of where many of the technologies Honeycutt was documenting actually originated—the graphical user interface, the mouse, networked computing. It's a narrative history that reads like a thriller, but it gives you the intellectual genealogy of the very features you were learning to optimize in Plus!, making every chapter feel like discovering the origin story of tools you thought you already understood.