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Running The IE VPC’s on other VPC Hosts?

Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:34 AM by PeteL
I’ve had a few people email me, or email the IE blog to ask about running the IE VPC’s on other VPC hosts than Microsoft VPC so I figured I’d post this to my blog. I don't think anything has changed in the images since we've started producing them back Read More...
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Testing Multiple IE Versions, VPC’s and Super Preview

Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 11:40 AM by PeteL
It’s been almost 2 years now since we first shipped the Internet Explorer testing VPC’s so that you could test IE6 and at the time IE7 on the same machine.  We understand the need for people to test IE6, IE7 and IE8 on the same machine, and remain Read More...
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IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 3:58 PM by PeteL
Apologies for going dark the last little while, I'm going to do my best to change that again. Lots of stuff going on here that I'm really excited about, but before I get into that, I want to do an unscientific survey. We currently offer developers and Read More...
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"IE8" and VPC's

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:16 PM by PeteL
Two quick notes that I wanted to get out there. IE8.  Yep, it officially has a name now.  Check out the post from Dean on the IE blog. I've uploaded the new VPC images and am just waiting for them to propagate through the severs, now.  Read More...
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IE6 / IE7 VPC's Coming

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:09 AM by PeteL
Just a quick note to say that the IE6 and IE7 VPC images are being updated as we speak, and I suspect the new versions should be online Monday or Tuesday. Read More...
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IE6 VPC's Coming Today

Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 8:29 AM by PeteL
It's 8:30am PST and the VPC's are in the process of being moved from the staging server to the live servers and I expect them to be up in the next hour or so. I'll update this blog post as soon as they're available! Read More...
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IE VPC Images

Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:35 PM by PeteL
Just a quick note to let everyone know the IE VPC images will be coming VERY shortly. Since this is the first time I've had someone else create them, it's taken a little longer than I expected it to. I hope to have the images online sometime tomorrow, Read More...
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VWD Beta2, Web Developer Tools, IE VPC

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:34 PM by PeteL
So as it turns out, it's been a while since I last posted. Things have been a little nutty around here. We just finished our fiscal year, and have started planning for our next fiscal year. It's been really exciting, lots of cool stuff happening around Read More...
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IE7 VPC Image and IE6 VPC Image Refresh

Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:56 PM by PeteL
Cross posted from the IE Blog Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that we’ve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007 . The first is a refresh of the Windows XP SP2 + IE6 image . A few people were encountering Read More...
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Compacting XP VPC Images

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:54 AM by PeteL
Someone had posted a comment on my blog asking how I get my VPC images down to a reasonable size, so I figured I'd share it here. It's not the most fun process, but it does manage to get a VPC image down from about 5+ gigs, to about 1.5 or so. To start, Read More...
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IE6 VPC & IE7 VPC

Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 1:44 PM by PeteL
We've seen a few reports of people having problems with the recently released IE6 VPC image. At first I thought it was because people were running the image on non-Microsoft virtualization software, which causes the image to be invalidated. But, I got Read More...
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IE6 VPC Refresh

Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:20 PM by PeteL
Cross-posted from the IE Blog In my original blog post about releasing the IE6 Virtual PC Image, we mentioned that it would expire on April 1st, 2007 (no, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke), and that we’d be releasing a new VPC image to replace it sometime Read More...
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IE6 VPC (An Update)

Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 9:34 AM by PeteL
Just a quick update to let you know the work for the IE6 VPC has been mostly completed. We're down to the last few steps, and I hope to have it out by the end of the week. Before we release it, I'll be testing it on the PC, and I also want to test it Read More...
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