Re: Windows 8

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

The link is to a whole XP virtual machine with I.E. in it. There's no point
in just having an old I.E. (and it wouldn't be 400MB, but about 10MB). They
say:


"we release pre-configured virtual machines containing old versions of
Internet Explorer to support web developers."


Snap it up.




--- On Fri, 10/26/12, Harry Binswanger  wrote:

>
> >Well yeah, but virtualization also seems to have been a
> priority:
> >
> >http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-wind
ows-8.aspx>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-windows-8.aspx

>
> >
>
> Wow, they have a 400 MB pre-configured XP virtual machine
> for Win7. I'm
> downloading that before it disappears.
>
>

Harry,

Maybe you can point out where I missed it in that piece, but I
did not see such a link -- only one for different versions of
Internet Explorer ?

Also, I recall printing out a piece that I think ran in The Register
("the hand that bites IT" is their motto) some time ago, about how
the built-in virtualization in (the top editions of) Win-7 was
largely smoke and mirrors, likely to disappoint in terms of
real-world performance, compared to other, outside solutions like
VMWare player. I just went looking for that link, but did not
manage to find it again. If I still have the hardcopy and can find
it, I could probably get more specific.


 Jordan