Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by JunkDNA » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 6:38 PM UTC

Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac
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Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by ytjohn » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

I've actually been using the Windows 7 / IE9 version of this for a while. There is a nice simple install w/snapshot that I utilized on both my Ubuntu machine and my Mac. It takes a snapshot before powering the machine so once your 90 days is up, you can just roll the snapshot back.

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

Edit: I mainly use IE to interact with work's IE-only CRM/ticket system.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by JunkDNA » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 7:36 PM UTC

For a long time I was critical of MS for forcing developers to use their VirtualPC VM's because it just wasn't realistic: people use VMWare and VirtualBox as well as Macs and Linux. It was always an example of MS's frequent "plays poorly with others" behavior. Kudos to them for making it right.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by k3n » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 7:44 PM UTC

ytjohn wrote: post #2

I've actually been using the Windows 7 / IE9 version of this for a while. There is a nice simple install w/snapshot that I utilized on both my Ubuntu machine and my Mac. It takes a snapshot before powering the machine so once your 90 days is up, you can just roll the snapshot back. https://github.com/xdissent/ievms Edit: I mainly use IE to interact with work's IE-only CRM/ticket system.

Wow, what's the $860 for, hosting?

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by ytjohn » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 7:53 PM UTC

k3n wrote: post #4

ytjohn wrote: post #2

I've actually been using the Windows 7 / IE9 version of this for a while. There is a nice simple install w/snapshot that I utilized on both my Ubuntu machine and my Mac. It takes a snapshot before powering the machine so once your 90 days is up, you can just roll the snapshot back. https://github.com/xdissent/ievms Edit: I mainly use IE to interact with work's IE-only CRM/ticket system.

Wow, what's the $860 for, hosting?

I'm not sure I follow.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by sljd » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

JunkDNA wrote: post #3

For a long time I was critical of MS for forcing developers to use their VirtualPC VM's because it just wasn't realistic: people use VMWare and VirtualBox as well as Macs and Linux. It was always an example of MS's frequent "plays poorly with others" behavior. Kudos to them for making it right.

What do you mean by "forcing"? I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox without any problems.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by jsingleton » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

sljd wrote: post #6

JunkDNA wrote: post #3

For a long time I was critical of MS for forcing developers to use their VirtualPC VM's because it just wasn't realistic: people use VMWare and VirtualBox as well as Macs and Linux. It was always an example of MS's frequent "plays poorly with others" behavior. Kudos to them for making it right.

What do you mean by "forcing"? I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox without any problems.

I believe the previous official images were for Virtual PC or Hyper-V only.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by JunkDNA » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:01 PM UTC

sljd wrote: post #6

JunkDNA wrote: post #3

For a long time I was critical of MS for forcing developers to use their VirtualPC VM's because it just wasn't realistic: people use VMWare and VirtualBox as well as Macs and Linux. It was always an example of MS's frequent "plays poorly with others" behavior. Kudos to them for making it right.

What do you mean by "forcing"? I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox without any problems.

If you wanted to legally run multiple versions of IE without having to have multiple Windows licenses for every combination (e.g. IE8/XP, IE8/Win7, IE10 Win7, IE10 Win8, etc...) you had to use the MS-provided virtual machines. However, these were only ever made available as VirtualPC images. So there was no way to run them, even on Windows, without all sorts of machinations (some of which may have violated the ToS).

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by zzzcpan » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:03 PM UTC

sljd wrote: post #6

JunkDNA wrote: post #3

For a long time I was critical of MS for forcing developers to use their VirtualPC VM's because it just wasn't realistic: people use VMWare and VirtualBox as well as Macs and Linux. It was always an example of MS's frequent "plays poorly with others" behavior. Kudos to them for making it right.

What do you mean by "forcing"? I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox without any problems.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by jsingleton » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:07 PM UTC

I got the previous images the last time this site came up. Using Hyper-V that comes with Win 8 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper... to run them. Works a treat. VMWare workstation is also very good though.