IE8 will run for me, but I run Comodo Defense+ on “Safe” Mode which will give me a bunch of warnings about attempting to modify protected registry keys.

No virus is detected in these files by Avira, so I think it is Comodo being paranoid (More likely than not).

Otherwise IE8 will run from the above source.

James.

Here’s a thought – why doesn’t MS just buy Spoon and implement their own virtualization engine so they are not violating their own EULA?

HOWEVER, the free version only allows you to do this with IE browsers and the purchased version only allows you to add Firefox and Safari. When I asked the presenter as to whether or not they were going to include Opera, Chrome or any other popular browsers, he said he didn’t know.

Since I own an MSDN subscription, I was able to install the paid version of Expression. It is a cool tool. While I had the attention of the presenter at the conference, I asked him about the issue between MS and Spoon. Basically, he said that Spoon was in violation of the EULA since they were virtualizing the IE browser, which requires a piece of the OS to run. So, in effect, Spoon was downloading components of the OS with the virtualization.

I really hope they can get this resolved. Expressions is cool, but I would rather be Spoon fed.

It’s like they’re going out of their way to make development for their own browsers more difficult (yet again).

It might be understandable if they offered their own solution, but they don’t (and running multiple virtual machines that expire and need to be re-installed just doesn’t cut it).

Since upgrading to windows 7 64 bit recently it looks like I can’t run multipleIE any more there, so it’s back to setting up an old XP box for that now. If I knew I wouldn’t be able to use spoon.net for testing – I would have stuck with XP and not bothered upgrading. Microsoft would have lost a sale for windows 7 if it wasn’t for this service stepping in to fill a massive gap microsoft has left for web developers, and if they’d done this just a couple of weeks earlier they would have lost my business.

They should think of how much they’re alienating their own customers before pulling a trick like this!

Will be interesting to see what dispute they have with spoon.net to pull IE. Surely it isn’t because they’re upset that they’re distributing crappy bug ridden old versions of their browser (a ton of other places have been doing that without any problems).

Or is it professional jealousy that spoon.net have achieved something they couldn’t dream of themselves (despite a service like spoon.net being something microsoft could have probably done much easier themselves in house if they had the foresight)?

“Spoon hopes to have cloud-based IE back up soon. Please stay tuned here or follow us @spoonapps.”

POINT #2: Are you freakin’ kidding me?? Microsoft has ordered Spoon.net to remove IE from their site? I know MS must be embarrassed to have IE6 running side-by-side with IE7, IE8 and IE9 so people can see the stark differences between the browsers, but come on Microsoft – don’t you WANT people to be able to create quality sites that function well within your browsers?

What a stupid thing for MS to do.

or does anyone has a solution to get just the binary?

KR
T.