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Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 Virtually

Now, this is not easy for me to admit but I just learned about an awesome Windows application by Microsoft.. from a mac user :)

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 & Internet Explorer VPC Images

I cannot believe this has been under my radar all this time. Finally I can easily have different windows/IE setups. The software is free (yes, I found it hard to believe too but it’s true!) and Microsoft gives you ready-to-use virtual hard-drive images with operating system and IE ready.

It has been a long time since I last praised Microsoft for doing something right. And now I’m getting suspicious… what’s the catch here?!

Installation

• Download Virtual PC 2007 setup.exe, execute it and enjoy the no-reboot-required installation (yet another amazing thing).
• Download one or more hard-drive images, execute and select a directory where you want the image to be extracted.
• Start Virtual PC 2007 and create a new virtual machine. Use the extracted hard-drive image.
• Boot up the virtual machine and enjoy the IE experience

P.S. Like the original post describes you can use virtual images provided by MS with other operating systems / virtual machine hosts too.