Internet Explorer 11 Virtual Machines Now Available for Download

Microsoft has 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. The VMs are available for free for the purpose of testing your site on all versions of Internet Explorer.

The VHD images are available for Linux, Mac and Windows across the most common virtualization platforms, including Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Virtual PC for Windows 7, and VirtualBox on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

The IE versions being offered are:
  • Windows XP with IE6
  • Windows XP with IE8
  • Windows Vista with IE7
  • Windows 7 with IE8
  • Windows 7 with IE9
  • Windows 7 with IE10
  • Windows 7 with IE11
  • Windows 8 with IE10
  • Windows 8.1 with IE11

What's new?
Microsoft has updated all of the virtual machines based on customers feedback to make browser testing easier. These VMs include following changes:
  • 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 update

Download Internet Explorer 11 Virtual Machines
The suite of virtual machines available on modern.IE.


Download Instructions
  1. Download the EXE and all RAR files for the VM (smaller VMs may not have files with RAR extension). In each set below that contains a split archive, a provided text file (.txt) contains URLs to all files in the set, and the contents of this can be used directly with most download managers.
  2. After the download of all files for a set is complete, run the EXE and choose location to extract VM.

Download detailed requirements and instructions here.

Reference:
IE Blog

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