On: The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

[Piskvorrr]

Well...I'd gladly upgrade my IE. But hey look, I need to upgrade my OS as well? Oh, and my computer too? Nice try, MS.

[davedx → Piskvorrr]

You can upgrade up to IE 8 on XP. What are you using?

[Piskvorrr → davedx]

IIRC, the current version of IE is two major versions higher (i.e., 10) as of April 2013, and it's slightly different from IE8. (The box in question is a sandboxed VM anyway, but it bothers me that I must pay the MS tax again, just to have their current browser for development.)

[evilduck → Piskvorrr]

If you're just testing against IE for web development, Microsoft actually makes available tons of VM images with various IE versions available for free: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

[Piskvorrr → evilduck]

Interesting. (Ironically, the site is broken - clicking the links doesn't seem to do anything. Perhaps it is "Optimized for IE"? ;))