IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

re: IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

Cox, Ken — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:52:45 GMT

Vista + SP1 with IE7 is my choice.

The XP + SP2 with IE6 VPC was very useful to me in reproducing an IE 6 bug. Thanks for doing them!

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Zac — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:52:43 GMT

VMWare Fusion for the Mac please! Vista SP1 + IE7 would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

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Ciaran Roarty — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:54:58 GMT

As a Mac User, I'd appreciate a Parallels VPC.

In terms of versions, Vista with SP1 would be best, I think.

re: IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

Chris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:21:34 GMT

As a Mac user, I'd appreciate XP or Vista + IE7, in zipped Parallels or zipped VMware format (VMs created with VMware on Windows work unmodified with VMware Fusion on a Mac).

Thanks!

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JD — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:22:28 GMT

I think both would be good, reason being that not all users out there will update to sp1. Mainly because some of them may not know how to do so. Those would be the ones that will complain about the site in IE7.

Of course if there is no real difference between non-sp and sp1, then I go with the latter if that is the case.

Other question, I use both vpc images out there to test web applications and non-web applications, and was wondering if it was possible to login into the system as an admin. One of the applications i was testing recently involved me installing and then uninstalling it, but alas I was not able to uninstall because I did not have admin rights. So if that is possible then let me know.

re: IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

Clinton Gallagher — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:11:50 GMT

I talk to people who still use modems and run IE5 on older machines that just keep on running just like that Energizer Bunny .

There are still plenty of "poor" people that are not hip broadband bandidos like us. Many, many, many of them. Testing for that persistent and measurable group of people is to bring more people to the "buy" button get it?

Go to that dusty old closet and drag out an IE5.5 VPC.

And what browser(s) run on those $100 laptops anyway?

re: IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

Clinton Gallagher — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:54:04 GMT

I've recently discovered and confirmed IE7 can in fact render differently on the IIS5.1 XP platform than on the IIS7 Vista platform but I cannot yet explain exactly how other than to note it is some context of CSS positioning and the box model.

The page layout of a 2.0 application I am developing got started and tested for IE7 on XP and now when viewed using IE7 on a new Vista machine the layout is mangled.

Furthermore, the same application appears as developed and expected when using IE6 on a different XP machine on the LAN. The same is true when using Firefox on all three machines. The only bad child is IE7 on IIS7 on Vista.

re: IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

klu — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:37:46 GMT

yes, Vista SP1 + IE7 sounds like a very good deal. I'm assuming that the vast majority of Vista users will jump on SP1, so it will acurrately reflect the environment.

Considering the April expiration date for the December VPC images, the availability of the new releases is rather clear. But XP SP2? Still? Any thoughts on XP SP3 + IE 6/7?

anyway, excellent work, some of us out there, even if not very vocal, are indeed grateful...

re: IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

Eric E. — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:10:52 GMT

Vista + SP1 with IE7 would be best. Our company currently has no plans to move to Vista; but as some of our clients have it, it would be helpful to have a VPC that would let us test Vista.

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Francois — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:40:22 GMT

It would make sense to have the "most up to date" VM, thus Vista SP1 and IE7.

However, if there are some major incompatibilities with SP1 that could potentially require us to test even "average" pieces of software (that is, software that doesn't do any kind of system stuff.... that would work on virtually any version of windows with any setup), then having the previous image (without SP1) would be the best.

I haven't tried SP1, or even read (much) about it, so I can't be more precise than that. But the only reason I'd want the non-SP1 version would be if it was vastly different, even for everyday development... only SP2 of XP did that.