IE11 Virtual Machines now just a download away...

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

IE11 Virtual Machines now just a download away...

IEBlog - IE11 Virtual Machines Now Available on modern.IE

With the recent release of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, we have added IE11 for Windows 7 and IE11 on Windows 8.1 to the suite of virtual machines available on modern.IE for testing Internet Explorer across platforms and versions. We have also updated all of the virtual machines based on your feedback, to make browser testing easier. The VMs are available for free for the purpose of testing your site on all versions of Internet Explorer; regardless of your development platform. The images are available for Linux, Mac and Windows across the most common desktop virtualization technologies.

Among the changes we made to the refreshed VMs are:

Windows update is set to off by default to prevent VMs with older versions of IE from automatically updating themselves to newer IE versions

Extended the expiration time of the images

Answers to frequently asked questions are now readily accessible from the Windows desktop

Added a VM build version number and set the IE home page to visit modern.IE to check for VM updates

VMs for testing on IE are just one of many free tools we offer on modern.IE. Check out these additional tools designed to help reduce your testing time:

A static code site-scanner to check for common compatibility problems

Add our compatibility inspector JavaScript library on your site without touching a line of code thanks to Sauce Labs automation

See how your site renders across popular devices and browsers with BrowserStack screenshots

See techniques and code we developed behind the scenes for some amazing HTML5 Web sites through tech teardowns

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If you're a company looking to test your product on IE11, or a dev needing to do the same thing, or maybe an IT, or just want to check it out, these VM's are one of the easiest and safest ways of doing it...