Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge using virtual machines

Re:Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge ... by matthewmacleod on Thursday August 20, 2015 @07:14AM (#10091076)

I guess the problem there is that you need different Windows versions too – and they're all pretty chunky! It definitely helps though, and AFAIK all virtualisation tools have support.

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Re:Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge ... by SXX on Thursday August 20, 2015 @10:26AM (#10092019)

I believe that Windows 7 would be enough for anything except Edge. E.g you can install IE6 in XP compatability mode for sure.

Suppose there may be issues with crap like ActiveX, but most of people I know just worry about how page looks like and I don't believe rendering of IE11 on Win7 and Win8 would be different. Though I'm not expert.

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Re:Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge ... by talmand on Thursday August 20, 2015 @01:07PM (#10093170)

Just curious, how do you install IE6 in Win7?

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Re:Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge ... by bskap on Thursday August 20, 2015 @05:22PM (#10094757)

By using the "XP Mode" VM.

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Re:Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge ... by talmand on Friday August 21, 2015 @10:17AM (#10097598)

So, that is not installing IE6 in Win7. That's installing IE6 in WinXP that's running as a VM in Win7.

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