[wccrawford]

Are they trying to make IE obsolete?

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.

[lenni]

They are trying to force people who develop websites for IE (which applies to 95%) to buy a copy of windows.

[nym]

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.

[brehaut]

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

[babyboy808]

I don't think so mate as they have offer an ISO image + XP for example for developers, but Spoon was so much easier!

[lenni]

Good point, but why are they doing it then?

[deutronium]

'Winetricks' makes it pretty easy to install IE on linux, as well as a bunch of other handy windows programs.