Download Test VMs of IE (Build 20141027)

Microsoft has released build 20141027 of VMs of IE and available for download from modern.IE website. The VMs are available for free for the purpose of testing your site on all versions of Internet Explorer.

The VM images are available for Linux, Mac and Windows across the most common virtualization platforms, including Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 & Windows 8 Pro w/Hyper-V, Virtual PC for Windows 7, VMware Player for Windows and VirtualBox on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

The IE versions being offered are:

• IE11 on Windows 10
• IE11 on Windows 7
• IE11 on Windows 8.1
• IE10 on Windows 8
• IE10 on Windows 7
• IE9 on Windows 7
• IE8 on Windows 7
• IE8 on XP
• IE7 on Vista
• IE6 on XP

What's new in build 20141027?
Microsoft has updated all of the virtual machines based on customers feedback to make browser testing easier. This build (20141027) includes the following:

• Use IE blocker toolkit to keep the version of IE for that image fixed and not auto-updated.
• Set Windows Update on and to auto update.
• Applied all applicable Windows Updates to the images up to November 2014.
• Changed the archive technology from RAR to ZIP based on community feedback.
• Added a single large ZIP file archive as a download option in addition to multi-part files as requested by the community.

These updates apply to all VMs accessible via the sites download page for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms and across Hyper-V, VirtualBox, VMWare Player and Parallels Desktop.

Download VMs of IE
The suite of virtual machines available on modern.IE.

Download Instructions
Getting started with VMs:
To start, download a single-file ZIP archive or all parts of a multi-file ZIP archive for a VM.

To extract a single-file ZIP archive:
Extract using built-in "Extract All" functionality or a 3rd party utility such as 7-zip.

To extract a multi-part ZIP archive:
Combine parts together into single ZIP file:

• Create a new directory that contains just the archive parts for the VM that you wish to use, e.g. create a "IE9.Win7" folder and move all downloaded ZIP parts to that location.
• Via the Command Prompt window:
  
  • Change directory to your chosen folder from previous step.
  • Run 'copy /b *.zip.00? combined.zip'

Follow the "Single-file ZIP archive" step above to extract from combined.zip.
These VMs will expire. Please read the instructions for more information.

Reference:
IE Blog