They are trying to force people who develop websites for IE (which applies to 95%) to buy a copy of windows.
You can get evaluation copies of windows to run IE in for debugging free from Microsoft. My big complaint is that I don't want to run a VM for every browser.
It appears as if the IE exe's made by Xenocode still work. I don't have a link for them, I'm not sure if they're hosted anywhere still.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=...
You may also want to check out http://shapeshed.com/journal/testing_with_ie6_ie7_and_ie8_on... if you wish to use virtualbox rather than paying for virtual PC
Re:IE removed from spoon.net
by babyboy808 on Monday November 15, 2010 @02:42PM
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I don't think so mate as they have offer an ISO image + XP for example for developers, but Spoon was so much easier!
Good point, but why are they doing it then?
Re:IE removed from spoon.net
by deutronium on Monday November 15, 2010 @02:52PM
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'Winetricks' makes it pretty easy to install IE on linux, as well as a bunch of other handy windows programs.
I know this is probably a move by the lawyers, and the browser-promotion folks probably don't even know about it yet, but seriously... If you want to promote your (free!) browser, you have to make life easy for developers.