Microsoft releases free Windows XP Virtual PC images

by Brad Linder Apr 19th 2007

Microsoft has released two new Virtual PC images featuring Windows XP SP 2. One includes Internet Explorer 7, and the other has Internet Explorer 6.

The images should come in handy for anyone running Windows Vista who wants to see how their web page look in Internet Explorer under Windows XP. Of course, you could also run the disc image inside of Virtual PC if you want to try installing new software without risking any damage to your host operating system.

The disc images are under 500MB and expire on August 17th, 2007. The images are pre-activated, and include no product keys, so you can't grab a key from these images and use it to activate a full version of Windows XP.

These images will not work under Virtual PC for Mac.

[via CyberNotes]

Tags: internet explorer, InternetExplorer, virtual pc, VirtualPc, windows xp, WindowsXp

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Blog Jones said 1:39PM on 4-23-2007

These things are going to be such a huge help to me. All of my computers have IE7 on them now, so it's a huge help getting IE6 in its native environment, without any of the hacks and workarounds needed to install Multiple IE's.

Thanks!

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