If that is important to you we have also made available all versions of IE in Virtual Machines at https://www.modern.ie

Does any or all older version of IE run in wine in linux? would that be better solution than download tons of 7gb VMs just to test IE?

Edit: never mind, found answer here http://askubuntu.com/questions/190425/how-to-install-interne...

what a nightmare!!! It is simpler to just detect IE user and ask them to switch to ff or chrome.

It used to be quite simple with IEs4Linux[1], but it only supports IE 5, 5.5, 6 and sort of 7. Not as useful nowadays.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEs4Linux

And, if you frequently use IE virtual machines, you can use the ievms[1] script to manage the downloads, expiration times, etc. Saves a ton of bandwidth and disk space over the modern.ie downloads, too (it uses the modern.ie images as base installs).

[1] https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

FYI: it's "circling the drain"

I think "circling the train" is more witty; it paints a great picture of a stereotypical American wild-west film, with American Indians circling a train whilst shooting rifles in a haphazard manner whilst shouting and yelping.

Or perhaps bandits doing the same thing.

In any case, a large collection of bespectacled Microsoft employees circling a train on horses whilst still wearing 1980s software developer outfits (shirts with pinstripes in them but white collars, high-waisted ironed trousers with a slim gold belt buckle, and big glasses, and a bushy moustache) in all the dirt would be witty, whilst dragging green-screen CRTs and big 5.25" floppy discs in their saddle bags with great difficulty.

I know, I know, this is terribly stereotypical but I think it would make for a great film in the style of Mel Brooks; you can contact me if you want obscure and off-the-wall film settings like this...