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Virtual PC Your Way to Mastery of IE6, IE7, and IE8

Posted 01/05/09 at 12:34:10 PM  by Mark Edward Soper

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Microsoft rolls out new Virtual PC images for IE testing on XP and Vista

Let's face it, web developers. Even if you're the most devoted fan of Firefox, Opera, or Safari, the 800-pound gorilla in the room is still Internet Explorer. Like IE or hate it, your pages had better work properly with it. Unfortunately, you can only have one version of IE running on a test PC at a time...or can you?

Add Virtual PC 2007 SP1 to your Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2003 or 2008 box, and install your choice  of Windows XP SP3+IE6, Windows XP SP3+IE7, Windows XP+IE8 Beta 2, or Windows Vista+IE7 in VHD format. Now, it's easy to find out which pages make a particular flavor of IE gag, and you can switch between IE versions running in different VMs with the click of a mouse. For more Virtual PC downloads, including release notes, click here.

These disk images work until April 2009, so you have plenty of time to work out page glitches. Not developing websites? No problem! Try them anyway. 

COMMENTS:6
TAGS: microsoft, operating system, Virtual PC 2007, virtualization, Internet Explorer, IE7, IE, IE6, IE8, test, VHD, image
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avatarI make my own VPC's

Submitted by winmaster on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 6:44pm

I like to make my own VPC's. That way, I can remove some Windows components in nLite first. 

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avatarJust a guess...

Submitted by worm8199 on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 4:32pm

I don't know binary very well at all. I had to learn it at some point but never needed it so it didn't stick but I'm going to take a stab at your joke..... two ones (11) in binary actually stands for three? 

 

....showing that i'm not as geeky as I thought.... 

 

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avatarCorrect!

Submitted by winmaster on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 11:39am

Sorry, double post.

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avatarCorrect!

Submitted by winmaster on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 6:43pm

11 in binary equals 3 in the base-2 number system, which is what people usually use. 

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avatarThis article may have solved a professional problem for me!

Submitted by DRAGONWEEZEL on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 2:46pm

I have to support a somewhat "legacy" web-app that doesn't work at all on vista (I.E. 7 or 8)  but if I can run a VM in vista, I bet the app will work fine, then I can just distribute the VM session.

 

You guys rock!

 

THERE ARE ONLY 11 TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD. Those that think binary jokes are funny, those that don't, and those that don't know binary

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avatarI'm

Submitted by winmaster on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 6:42pm

I'm one of those that don't. 

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