My XP IE 7 AppCompat VHD died yesterday, which surprised me. After all, I only installed a new one a couple weeks ago. So, I went to
download it again today. Sure enough, it's also already expired.
The strange thing is that the download page states "This VPC image will expire in January, 2009." I really have no desire to run Vista in Vista, under virtualization, just to be able to test in IE 7. I'd rather just test in IE 6 and IE8's "Compatibility Mode"
than deal with the performance hit. (My CPU has a hard enough time running XP in virtualization, sometimes! This particular system only has an Experience Index of 2.5... 
) After all, if stuff looks fine in IE 6, IE 8 (normal/standards), and IE 8 rendering
"as" IE 7, it probably will look fine in the real IE 7.
Anyone else experiencing an expired VM? Or is it just me, being quite unlucky?
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Me too. They didn't update the IE 7 VM when they refreshed the IE 6 and 8 VM's. Likely an oversight.
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JChung2006 said:Me too. They didn't update the IE 7 VM when they refreshed the IE 6 and 8 VM's. Likely an oversight.
Hm. OK. At least I'm not living in some parallel universe from everyone else.
Luckily, the majority of my testing right now is to make sure I didn't break IE 6's rendering. So, when I do my run-through on IE 7, I'll reboot the Mac into XP.
But, here's to hoping that someone who can get a new VHD released notices soon.
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Contact Pete LePage (http://blogs.msdn.com/petel/contact.aspx). He used to announce new IE VPC's on his blog on a regular basis. While he may be doing other things these days, I bet he could point you to the right person to contact about these.lewellyn said:JChung2006 said:*snip*Hm. OK. At least I'm not living in some parallel universe from everyone else.
Luckily, the majority of my testing right now is to make sure I didn't break IE 6's rendering. So, when I do my run-through on IE 7, I'll reboot the Mac into XP.
But, here's to hoping that someone who can get a new VHD released notices soon.
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They fixed this oversight recently. IE7 VHD refresh on XP SP3 is now available on the Download Center.JChung2006 said:
Contact Pete LePage (http://blogs.msdn.com/petel/contact.aspx). He used to announce new IE VPC's on his blog on a regular basis. While he may be doing other things these days, I bet he could point you to the right person to contact about these.lewellyn said:*snip*
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