On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:45:37 +0100, mechanic wrote:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:59:59 +1200, Ralph Fox wrote:

Microsoft provides free Windows VMs which only expire after 90 days.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

After the 90 days has expired, the Windows 7 versions can be re-armed a
couple of times. Which gives you more time before you have to start
afresh and re-install programs.

They don't go back very far;

Microsoft will only provide *supported* versions of Windows.

Inside the free VMs, help for the VMs still mentions the XP version.
But the download page no longer has it.

for an afternoon's fun try loading
Windows95 with IE3 into VirtualBox.

OTOH I had no problem installing Windows98 with IE4 into VMware Player.


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Kind regards
Ralph
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