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Published Feb 09 2006, 08:45 AM by breichelt

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Oskar Austegard said:

Yeah, who would have thought that something like Yahoo Messenger or Grouper would be affected by installing the beta? Alas, they are. :(

# February 9, 2006 12:32 PM

That's why Microsoft bought out Virtual PC from whoever created it, and gives it to us MSDN subscribers... I'll just setup a new XP Pro instance on a VM and dl IE7 into that, to see what all the hoopla is about.

# February 9, 2006 1:41 PM

Eber Irigoyen said:

just make sure you get the latest update to FireFox (1.5.1?), seems to fix the terrible memory leak problems in 1.5

# February 9, 2006 1:43 PM

breichelt said:

Oskar, yes, thats a great example with Yahoo! I know they use IE for their music engine as well, so who knows if that would screw up too.

Derick, thats also a good idea, but I never can get the performance from a virtual pc, but maybe i'll give it a shot when its slow some day :)

Eber, i definitely upgrade firefox, especially with auto updates turned on

# February 9, 2006 3:45 PM

Jay Kimble said:

Ben,

Did you see this? http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/02/02/437196.aspx

Jon shows you how to run them side by side (sort of)... you can't run them at exactly the same time, but you can play with IE7 without fully installing it!

# February 10, 2006 9:13 AM

breichelt said:

Jay, I had only seen the method that Scott Hanselman outlined, which sounded like it really screwed your system up! On Jon's post he says that installing it stand alone mode renders some features unavailable, which is the stuff that I want to see :)

I'll probably go the virtual pc route

# February 10, 2006 10:48 AM

Rumen Stankov said:

Yes, very good point. IE7 does affect additional programs. In my case Visual Studio, I've blogged on this topic here:

http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/rumen_stankov/archive/2006/02/07/106.aspx

# February 10, 2006 11:18 AM