Multiple versions of Internet Explorer
Despite Microsoft’s claims to the contrary, Joe Maddalone has discovered that it’s very easy to separate Internet Explorer from Windows and run multiple versions on one computer. Better yet, Skyzyx.com has posted pre-zipped versions of IE 3.0, 4.01, 5.01, and 5.5 to install and run.
Getting these to work requires a recent installation of IE 6.0, but it does work. Some of the browsers don’t work 100% (4.0’s address bar doesn’t work, but Open File does) but it’s good enough for testing Web sites.
Not surprisingly, this seems to contradict Microsoft’s repeated defense that IE was inseparable from Windows. In an ironic twist, the idea for the trick came from Microsoft’s IE Update that runs separately to demonstrate impending changes due to the Eolas lawsuit.