IE test VMs on modern.IE get a refresh

To help web developers test versions of Internet Explorer more easily, we’ve had a suite of virtual machines available on modern.IE since January of 2013. Today we released another refresh of the VMs to incorporate feedback and to update the base Windows versions.

The changes we’ve made with build 20141027 include:

• We now use IE blocker toolkit to keep the version of IE for that image fixed and not auto-updated
• Set Windows Update on and to auto update
• Applied all applicable Windows Updates to the images up to November 2014
• Changed the archive technology from RAR to ZIP based on community feedback
• Added a single large ZIP file archive as a download option in addition to multi-part files as requested by the community

Please update any scripts or automation hooks you may have built with our URLs to point to the most recent build and note the change of archive format to ZIP. We’ve also updated the readme and instructions on the site to help with the extraction process.

These updates apply to all VMs accessible via the sites download page for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms and across Hyper-V, VirtualBox, VMWare Player and Parallels Desktop.

As always, we love to hear from you so connect with us via twitter @IEDevChat for feedback and connecting with the web platform team here at Microsoft.

— Anton Molleda (@molant), Program Manager, Internet Explorer

Update 1/8/15 - Corrected build number.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 06, 2015
  Is there a way for us to get feedback on the actual VMs themselves? I recently started to work on a new work PC (Windows 7) and on this PC the IE7 build for Vista, and the IE 9 and 10 for Windows 7 all keep on blue screening for me within Virtual PC. All with different error messages. I was using the most recent builds prior to this announcement. I've got 8 GB of RAM so I don't think it's memory related. I've even had it blue screen when trying to look up the system log within the VM to see if they had info on what caused it to crash. :(

• Anonymous
  January 06, 2015
  A tweet to @IEDevChat or filling the form www.modern.ie/.../feedback are the preferred methods. Have you tried changing the settings of the VM when it is turned off (giving more memory, disabling acceleration, etc.)?

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  January 06, 2015
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  January 06, 2015
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  January 06, 2015
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• Anonymous
  January 06, 2015
  Thanks for the update! @nonanme - I would say; be happy that there is a translation for you. There are an aweful lot more languages out there that don't get a translated version.

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2015
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• Anonymous
  January 07, 2015
  I can't unzip IE11 on Win10 for VirtualBox on either OS/X or Ubuntu Linux.  Details here: intertwingly.net/.../Ununzippable-Modern-IE

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2015
  @Mike, everything has been updated so there isn't any confusion. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2015
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• Anonymous
  January 08, 2015
  @molant thanks very much for your help! Mike

• Anonymous
  January 09, 2015
  There are defects too a lot more than such thing in Windows 7&IE11, so please correct the bug which can be corrected early. It's inconvenient and inevitable. Such as a tab goes off selfishly, it's done. It's much after it'll be a regular version.

• Anonymous
  January 13, 2015
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• Anonymous
  January 14, 2015
  @Lexbi  "like" It would also be awesome if the remote tool just did all this for us instead of only having an option to run IE11 :)  Maybe some app-v in the backend would allow 2012R2 to run the lesser version browsers?  Nonetheless, thanks for the services Microsoft!!!!

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2015
  that's great !!!

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2015
  Hi, I have tested with latest build (Windows 10, IE11 v11.0.9841.0) and yet this bug is unresolved: connect.microsoft.com/.../breaking-issue-ie-11-11-0-9600-17031-freezes-on-right-clicking-the-page-for-context-menu Right-clicking on the overlay jams the current window (with all the tabs open) and effect the performance badly. It was not there in earlier builds of IE11. Seems like a regression and/or memory leak issue. Please consider fixing it before Win10 goes RTM. It maybe causing in other scenarios as well, where $(document).unbind is used. Thank you for your efforts and the VMs. (it was super easy to use with Hyper-V)

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2015
  Does Internet Explorer end in 11 really? An event of Windows 10 is holding on that January 21, and everything is done clearly. Please exhibit detailed information early. With the expression it's difficult to show, excuse me. When there is a wonderful person, too, I think the person who would be a problem in a compatibility face is here, too, so I want you to do a bug fix briskly.

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2015
  can MS provide us support to CSS Shapes at next IE version? please? chrome already support it caniuse.com

• Anonymous
  January 16, 2015
  @Leandro - Vote for CSS Shapes here - wpdev.uservoice.com/.../6263716-shapes

• Anonymous
  January 18, 2015
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