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Running Multiple Versions Of IE On The Same Box

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  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2009
    Are you talking about SuperPreview ?

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2009
    Do you know when the latest vhds will be available? The April 30 expiration is around the corner. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2009
    VPC images do not run on Vista Home Premium, which is by far the most installed version of Vista. If there's something which doesn't help us web developers here, then it's Microsoft itself.

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2009
    Strange timing for your post. The IE test VPN images expire in a couple of days, and I haven't seen anything about new images with new expiration dates. Is Microsoft going to release new images?

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2009
    There are applications out there that will put IE4/5/6/7/8 on the same machine and let you switch between

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2009
    Re: Edward Martin's post about VPC image not running under Vista Home Premium. Virtual PC and VPC images do run under Vista Home Premium. It's not "officially supported", and you get a warning message when you install it, but you can safely ignore the warning.

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2009
    How about a link to those VPCs then?

  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2009
    What about IETester? (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage)

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2009
    The VHDs are expired!  Where are the new ones?

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2009
    Application virtualzation have a look at the following http://geekswithblogs.net/kazimmehdi/archive/2009/04 /29/running-internet-explorer-7---8-side-by-side-again.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2009
    My IE6 VPC image expired last night. When will a new image be posted? Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2009
    Just wanted to get a post out to let people know that we’ve updated the IE VPC Test images. These images

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2009
    IETester will still have the same problems as other multiple IE solutions - as you aren't getting a true test environment (beyond CSS testing).

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2009
    @Sam: IETester is using the exact rendering engin and javascript engine of the ie engine it is instanciating for each tab. What do you mean exactly when you say "IETester will still have the same problems as other multiple IE solutions". Can you be precise please ?

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2009
    "VPC images do not run on Vista Home Premium" possibly, but developers will be running vista business, so that's ok :P

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2009
    as asked above, what about Xenocode? http://www.xenocode.com/Browsers/

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2009
    The inability to run multiple versions of IE does not just hurt when testing websites. Upgrading IE is a major issue for many corporations because there is a very real risk of breaking existing web applications. For the same reason, this may hold organizations back from using new webapplications that run well only on the more standards compliant versions of IE (like 7 and 8). All these problems would be gone if IE was architected such that IE instances would be stand alone and isolated from one another. Firefox can, why can't IE? What is the benefit for the customer to integrate an application with the OS to the extent that you cannot upgrade it without the risk of breaking something?

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2009
    The problem is chaining a relatively trivial app that needs to be widely deployed, to a lumpy anchor like an OS.   Ideally, it should be possible to install and use any version of IE on any version of Windows, and by eating that SxS dogfood, have it co-exist with different versions of itself. Now I know you'll say IE is hardly a "trivial app" - but it is hugely edge-facing, and IMO that means it should be somewhat detached from the OS's innards.  Think of how a leaf can be pulled off a tree without ripping it open; that's how I'd prefer to see edge-facing software that's exposed to exploits, so I can quickly amputate it if need be. Jake Munson refers to "stagnant IE6" - heh, imagine if all those years weren't stagnating in IE6, you'd prolly have another 2 or 3 versions of OS-bound browsers to test  :-)