Run Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Xp Professional for testing purposes?

I want to test my web application on Internet Explorer 9 开发者_C百科but I don't want to buy a copy of Vista/Win 7 on my developer machine with Windows XP.

Anyone knows a workaround, free and easy?

Use another machine.

Or better, get a set of Virtual Machines established which have an array of operating systems and browsers installed. Build enough VMs, and you are covered for all eventualities, regardless of whether you would personally use them or not.

Link to Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VirtualPC Images

You can't. The closest you'll get is IE9Preview.

I've found that IETester is not a bad way to quickly switch between browser versions for testing.

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows You can try running Wine on windows. This will let you emulate a newer version of Windows However, it will be really buggy (not mentioning how Wine is already buggy) Its a unix/linux application ported for Windows :)

IE 7,8,9

https://browserlab.adobe.com

Use

https://browserling.com

In unpaid version you have 3 minutes to test any site accessed from Internet on any browser.

In paid version you have unlimited sessions and ssh tunneling.