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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. Smiley

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. Smiley

But, here's to hoping that someone who can get a new VHD released notices soon.

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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... Wink ) 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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