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I find little sympathy for the MS world. How about a port of IE to Linux so I can test websites with it? How about the ability to install multiple versions of

I find little sympathy for the MS world. How about a port of IE to Linux so I can test websites with it? How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows? I could go on....

seabee 15y ago
> How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/04/testing-multiple-versions-of-ie-on-one-pc.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/04/testing-multip... As you might expect it's using virtualization, but nothing that isn't included in Windows 7 Professional and up.
est 15y ago
IE relies on mshtml which relies on COM which is basically, well, core Win32. IE is also the largest OLE container.
- MichaelGG 15y ago
  But that was a decision they deliberately took. At one point, IE had versions for UNIX and Mac.
- nknight 15y ago
  And Redis relies on POSIX semantics, which is... er... core POSIX? Microsoft does have a third option, you know. One many of us would love to see happen: real, first-class POSIX support in Windows.
bad_user 15y ago
Btw, you can run the freely provided virtual machines with multiple IExplorer versions on Linux with VirtualBox. Here's the script that will install them for you (works on my Ubuntu): https://github.com/xdissent/ievms https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
- ken 15y ago
  Have you gotten this to work recently? It looks like this script fetches the images that are listed on http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 which they say "will shutdown and become completely unusable on November 17, 2011". Someone has reported this a couple days ago on their forum http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_xp/windows-vpc-hard-disk-images/c94982ca-5cc5-4871-972b-9d6988eaca4a http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_xp/w... but there's been no response. Other questions on that forum indicate that there was exactly the same issue in 2010 and in 2009, so it looks like in practice, you can test with old versions of IE for free, but only in the summer months. It's certainly better than nothing, but it's not something I would depend on.

I find little sympathy for the MS world. How about a port of IE to Linux so I can test websites with it? How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows? I could go on....

seabee 15y ago

> How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/04/testing-multiple-versions-of-ie-on-one-pc.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/04/testing-multip... As you might expect it's using virtualization, but nothing that isn't included in Windows 7 Professional and up.

est 15y ago

IE relies on mshtml which relies on COM which is basically, well, core Win32. IE is also the largest OLE container.

MichaelGG 15y ago
But that was a decision they deliberately took. At one point, IE had versions for UNIX and Mac.
nknight 15y ago
And Redis relies on POSIX semantics, which is... er... core POSIX? Microsoft does have a third option, you know. One many of us would love to see happen: real, first-class POSIX support in Windows.

bad_user 15y ago

Btw, you can run the freely provided virtual machines with multiple IExplorer versions on Linux with VirtualBox. Here's the script that will install them for you (works on my Ubuntu): https://github.com/xdissent/ievms https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

ken 15y ago
Have you gotten this to work recently? It looks like this script fetches the images that are listed on http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 which they say "will shutdown and become completely unusable on November 17, 2011". Someone has reported this a couple days ago on their forum http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_xp/windows-vpc-hard-disk-images/c94982ca-5cc5-4871-972b-9d6988eaca4a http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_xp/w... but there's been no response. Other questions on that forum indicate that there was exactly the same issue in 2010 and in 2009, so it looks like in practice, you can test with old versions of IE for free, but only in the summer months. It's certainly better than nothing, but it's not something I would depend on.