I find little sympathy for the MS world.
How about a port of IE to Linux so I can test websites with it? How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows? I could go on....
How about a port of IE to Linux so I can test websites with it? How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows? I could go on....
Here's the script that will install them for you (works on my Ubuntu): https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
Someone has reported this a couple days ago on their forum http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_xp/w... but there's been no response.
Other questions on that forum indicate that there was exactly the same issue in 2010 and in 2009, so it looks like in practice, you can test with old versions of IE for free, but only in the summer months. It's certainly better than nothing, but it's not something I would depend on.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/04/testing-multip...
As you might expect it's using virtualization, but nothing that isn't included in Windows 7 Professional and up.
Microsoft does have a third option, you know. One many of us would love to see happen: real, first-class POSIX support in Windows.