Some IE9 Win7 VMs actually have IE8

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Scripts used to generate the free VMs available at https://dev.microsoftedge.com

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Some IE9 Win7 VMs actually have IE8 #16

Closed molant closed 4 years ago

molant commented 6 years ago

https://twitter.com/YupYoureRight/status/971056456718938112

molant commented 6 years ago

Similar report but with HyperV

Zenexer commented 6 years ago

Just ran into this issue with a freshly downloaded Hyper-V image. iexplore.exe is present, though there's no shortcut to it in the Start menu. However, it's IE8, not IE9.

alexangas commented 6 years ago

Is there any way this issue might be able to get some love please @PatrickLang @molant ?

molant commented 6 years ago

I have other projects with higher priority going and it's been challenging to get long periods of time to work on the vms because testing takes literally hours (and if it doesn't work you have to start again so...) 😔

That said, I might have some time in early August.

Zenexer commented 6 years ago

I'd be happy to contribute if possible. As long as the README.md is up-to-date, I should be able to figure it out.

Although, at the moment I'm in a bit of a bind because my Microsoft account keeps getting suspended and nobody seems to know why.

HollyIT commented 5 years ago

Just ran into this myself. For a simple workaround, you can download the IE9 standalone installed:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/3/B/C3BF2EF4-E764-430C-BDCE-479F2142FC81/IE9-Windows7-x86-enu.exe

I just did that and it works fine.

JamesScript7 commented 5 years ago

Hey guys.. any timeframe on when this'll get any love?

@HollyIT how did you get that stand alone to run?

arjendevries commented 5 years ago

@JamesScript7 , I had the same issue as you all. So for the IE9 VM it has IE8. Just pop the url @HollyIT included above and I just ran it and it installed IE9 no problem.

JamesScript7 commented 5 years ago

@arjendevries Thank you, I've decided to just use Browserstack. The IE8 browser in IE9 VM just hangs and crashes when I try to access that link...

apokryfos commented 5 years ago

If anyone has trouble installing the 32 bit IE on the 64bit windows VM then they can also try http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/1/6/C167B427-722E-4665-9A40-A37BC5222B0A/IE9-Windows7-x64-enu.exe

JamesScript7 commented 5 years ago

haha, that makes a lot of sense, I'll give it one more try. ty @apokryfos

JamesScript7 commented 5 years ago

Amazing, just to follow up, this worked @apokryfos

brianjmiller commented 4 years ago

Maybe if it isn't going to be fixed in a timely manner it can be removed as an option to prevent people wasting their time (and bandwidth for some) on downloading images that aren't going to work.

molant commented 4 years ago

Looks like the site has been updated and those VMs are no longer listed. Closing.

Indigo744 commented 3 years ago

I don't know why this was closed, as the issue is not resolved:

I couldn't find any link to download a proper installer for IE9 (IE9-Windows7-x64-enu.exe). The link suggested by @apokryfos does not work, as MS has decided to remove it.