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The biggest problem with these is that they all have an expiration date - and Microsoft frequently forgets to update them. And getting through to Microsoft to t
by ecaron 14y ago
The biggest problem with these is that they all have an expiration date - and Microsoft frequently forgets to update them. And getting through to Microsoft to tell them it is out of date... forget about it.
- Hawkee 14y agoStill better than having to buy a copy of Windows.
- Raticide 14y agoIt's easier to pirate Windows than use these images.
- wonderyak 14y agoI've been using these since ~2007 or so and this is a frequent issue. When new versions of IE or Windows come out they have been very, very slow to update these.
- lukeholder 14y agoThe idea is to just rollback the VM snapshot to day 1 and move on. These are for testing websites in IE.
- eli 14y agoThe XP image has a hard expiration date (currently just a few months from now: 2/14/13). I believe you would need to rollback to s snapshot and screw with the system date or the VM.
- wpietri 14y agoYes! We eventually stopped bothering with these because it was too much time to re-download and re-install them every time they expired. Instead, we just narrowed our IE support to what we could maintain easily with a legitimate copy of windows installed on a VM.
- at-fates-hands 14y agoI'm surprised more people haven't done this as it would seem an obvious way to solve the problem. I've recently been in several large corporations and they won't support anything below IE8 now. Most are dropping support for IE8 after IE10 becomes more widely available.