Comments on: Test Your Site in IE6 The Right Way–With a Free VPC Image from Microsoft http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:54:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: wwb_99 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-176711 wwb_99 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:18:28 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-176711 They are hacks--see the article I linked to in the first sentence of this blog post. To summarize, they are hacks because IE rests on alot of OS components, and you really should be testing against the full stack rather than just some bits of the rendering engine which is what the standalones are. They are hacks–see the article I linked to in the first sentence of this blog post.

To summarize, they are hacks because IE rests on alot of OS components, and you really should be testing against the full stack rather than just some bits of the rendering engine which is what the standalones are.

]]> By: markbrown4 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-176434 markbrown4 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:32:08 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-176434 500MB.. I'll do without. The stand-alone packages work great. Why do you call them 'hacks' that should be avoided without stating why? 500MB.. I’ll do without.

The stand-alone packages work great. Why do you call them ‘hacks’ that should be avoided without stating why?

]]> By: Tim http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-174461 Tim Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:36:16 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-174461 I finally pulled this "solution" down. The VM Windows cannot be authenticated ("lost or stolen"), so you can't upgrade the VM IE6 to an IE7. No matter what a lot of bloggers say, most corporate environments using existing corporate tools do NOT allow even webdevs to upgrade their machine to IE7...so the only solution is to run IE7 in a VM or find another machine, both of which will require an OS license. Solution = no solution. Cool idea, badly done. I finally pulled this “solution” down. The VM Windows cannot be authenticated (”lost or stolen”), so you can’t upgrade the VM IE6 to an IE7. No matter what a lot of bloggers say, most corporate environments using existing corporate tools do NOT allow even webdevs to upgrade their machine to IE7…so the only solution is to run IE7 in a VM or find another machine, both of which will require an OS license. Solution = no solution. Cool idea, badly done.

]]> By: www.webhosting.uk.com http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-117040 www.webhosting.uk.com Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:37:08 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-117040 This is awesome. I will download this shortly... This is awesome.
I will download this shortly…

]]> By: wwb_99 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-115868 wwb_99 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:31:40 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-115868 @Deaf: Read the line in the announcement after the time-bombing announcement, "We hope to continue to provide these images in the future as a service to web developers." I suspect that translates to "we will release another six-month timebombed version at an appropriate time." Remember, the IE team does need to get this through corporate, who does not want to hand out free, permenant copies of XP. @Deaf: Read the line in the announcement after the time-bombing announcement, “We hope to continue to provide these images in the future as a service to web developers.” I suspect that translates to “we will release another six-month timebombed version at an appropriate time.” Remember, the IE team does need to get this through corporate, who does not want to hand out free, permenant copies of XP.

]]> By: Deaf http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-114480 Deaf Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:58:39 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-114480 Well if you read the fine print... it is due to expire on 4-07. Which is not a bad thing however it would be better if it was at least a year since I'm sure it is going to be a while before IE6 is a minority. Well if you read the fine print… it is due to expire on 4-07. Which is not a bad thing however it would be better if it was at least a year since I’m sure it is going to be a while before IE6 is a minority.

]]> By: mniessen http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-113865 mniessen Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:38:33 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-113865 Great! I'm downloading it right now and will finally get rid of IE6 standalone. Great! I’m downloading it right now and will finally get rid of IE6 standalone.

]]> By: wwb_99 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-113802 wwb_99 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:45:46 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-113802 @dr livingston: Why is it too little, way too late? @Eric--don't you have a legitimate, licensed copy of windows for use on VPC7? Can't you just download using that? @dr livingston: Why is it too little, way too late?

@Eric–don’t you have a legitimate, licensed copy of windows for use on VPC7? Can’t you just download using that?

]]> By: Eric http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-113738 Eric Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:29:00 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-113738 It would seem that they overlooked something. You have to have windows genuine advantage or be able to validate a copy of windows using genuine advantage. Kind of makes it hard to get the image for testing on VPC 7 for mac. It would seem that they overlooked something. You have to have windows genuine advantage or be able to validate a copy of windows using genuine advantage. Kind of makes it hard to get the image for testing on VPC 7 for mac.

]]> By: Noin http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/12/02/test-you-site-in-ie6-the-right-way-with-a-free-vpc-image-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-113728 Noin Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:01:47 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1802#comment-113728 Just tried it out this morning, runs really great, seems even a lot faster than a regular XP SP2 somehow, and that's on my ages old rig, so it's really easy to test things with this. Just tried it out this morning, runs really great, seems even a lot faster than a regular XP SP2 somehow, and that’s on my ages old rig, so it’s really easy to test things with this.

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