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Posted by richard on 11/04/06 05:53
"patrick j" <patrick@jamesnews.orangehome.co.uk> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C170D7840066983FB019F94F@News.Individual.Net...
> Hi
>
> I think this post is on topic for alt.html, but only just really.
>
> I am very ignorant about Windows and I have got Windows XP Professional
> SP2 in a Parallels workstation on my Mac OS X so I can check out
> web-pages in IE 6.
>
> All is going very well, but now I want to have a second installation of
> Windows in the Parallels workstation so that I can check out web-pages
> in IE 7.
>
> I was rather fortuitous in that I got my Windows XP for free because I
> work at a university. However I can only get one copy.
>
> I'm not hugely rich so I'm not very enthusiastic about going out and
> buying a second version of Windows XP just to run IE 7.
>
> It has occurred to me however that I could upgrade IE 6 to IE 7 in the
> Windows XP I have and then buy second-hand an old version of Windows to
> install and run IE 6.
>
> Which is why I'm asking if IE 6 will run on old versions of Windows, or
> does it need XP?
>
> If it will run on old versions of Windows how far back could it go.
> Would it run on Windows 98 for example?
As I recall the order of events, IE5 came with windows 95, then IE6 came
with Windows 98se.
I know I was running IE6 on ME.
But why not install firefox? FF renders pages more correctly and has less
flaws.
I use it exclusively now.
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