Developers and testers have already been clamoring for Microsoft to supply a approach to run World wide web Explorer (IE) six.0 and 7.0 side-by-side around the identical machine. On November 30, Microsoft released a remedy for doing so. Microsoft has decided to deliver a Virtual Computer virtual-machine image made up of a pre-activated Windows XP SP2,
office 2007 product key, IE6 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit. The image is time bombed and can no longer operate soon after April 1, 2007. the IE staff noted on its blog this week. In spite of this, "We hope to continue to supply these images in the future as a service to internet developers,
Office 2010 Home And Student Key," the crew added. Developers worried about running afoul of Microsoft's licensing police had complained that Microsoft was forcing them to buy an additional Windows license in order to run IE six and IE 7 simultaneously using Virtual Pc. With all the newly created side-by-side answer, "the VPC picture runs in a virtual machine that offers all of the functionality of a full IE6 installation without giving it any access to its host machine’s hard drive, registry, etc.,
Office 2010 Professional Plus X86," the IE group mentioned. "You can make as many modifications as you want to the virtual machine without affecting your host installation at all." As well as the team's not stopping there. "While we’ve released a VPC image today with Windows XP SP2, we’re also investigating creating other VPC images, for example IE5, IE5.5, IE6 and IE6 SP1,
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Cheap office Home and Business 2010," according to Pete LePage, the IE product manager who blogged in regards to the new answer. 1 caveat: Virtual Pc 2004 doesn't work on Windows Vista, but the new side-by-side image does work with Virtual Pc 2007, which is currently in beta.