Update: now available for RemoteApp. Today, we’re excited to announce the preview availability of RemoteIE via Azure RemoteApp.

This is a free service from Microsoft that allows you to run the latest version of Internet Explorer on the Windows 10 Technical Preview from your Windows, Mac OS X, iOS or Android devices, without the need to run a new OS or heavyweight virtual machine on your device. Going forward, this will be the recommended way for developers who are not running Windows 10 to test the latest IE preview versions. To get started, simply sign up at with your Microsoft account and follow the directions to download the Azure RemoteApp client for your platform.

And Windows 7! Why build RemoteIE? In June of this year, we the IE developer channel as a way for developers to get the latest preview builds of IE. On October 1st, we began releasing the builds as part of the where it will through the Windows Insider Program. In addition, we provide virtual machines running stable versions of IE. We know that developers on Windows 7 want a way to test on the latest builds of IE and that the broader development community is eager to have the latest Internet Explorer available on other platforms. To address these needs comprehensively and efficiently, we built RemoteIE on top of the as the latest evolution of the IE dev channel – bringing a single, low friction solution to Windows downlevel clients as well as cross-platform.

Our goal is to make the latest IE widely available for testing to all Web developers, to help make the Web just work for everyone. How RemoteIE works The Azure RemoteApp preview builds on the Windows Server Remote Desktop Services infrastructure while also leveraging Azure’s global scale and utility-grade reliability. The service, released to preview in May, enables you to run Windows applications on a variety of devices from the Azure cloud.

RemoteIE provides access to the latest Internet Explorer on the Technical Preview via Azure RemoteApp. With RemoteIE, you can test the latest preview version of IE from your Windows, Mac, Android or iOS device. Once you’re set up with the RemoteApp client for your platform, you will be streaming IE from the Azure cloud within seconds. Going forward, we will update the RemoteIE version in line with the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview as new builds are released publicly.

A few technical considerations:. IE will be the only application available, though that includes the F12 Developer tools!. RemoteApp requires Windows Server 2012 R2 or newer so no older versions will be available (although you can use the F12 Developer tools to change the compatibility modes). Sessions are limited to conserve server resources. Sessions idle for 10 minutes will be logged out and no session can last more than 60 minutes – you’ll need to start a new session.

Performance will not be the same as running IE natively (e.g. No GPU acceleration).

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If you want to run it natively join the to get the Windows 10 Technical Preview or from modern.IE. RemoteIE will not be able to navigate to local sites or domains behind a firewall by default. Be sure to have a publicly accessible IP address or URL to test with, or consider using a 3rd party tunneling service such as. Because RemoteIE and Azure RemoteApp are in preview, there may be service interruptions. Please check the for answers to other common questions.

Let us know what you think We’re excited to bring you the RemoteIE preview: a way to test Internet Explorer preview builds on other platforms via Azure RemoteApp. Please take it for a spin and let us know what you think via or over in the UserVoice forums for. — Anton Molleda , Program Manager, Internet Explorer. Tip for @Doug and others. Developers can proxy localhost to a secret public endpoint using localtunnel.

This service solves a problem for some people. People who have different problems will continue to complain, irrelevantly. That's the nature of internet comments.

That said, If this project proves to be 'successful' (I don't know what the metric for success is) I would like to see this extended to older IE browsers. Maybe MS doesn't really want us focusing on support for previous browsers? The whole VM for a browser solution is ridiculous, IMO, so thanks for not doing that again.

Well, this is kinda cool. It's cool for that fact that you can test without having to install a VM, but really somewhat useless as the modern IE versions aren't usually the ones that developers struggle with. IE6-8 are the major sore spots or at least 7 and 8 as 6 is pretty well killed off in most places. But hey, if you go through the trouble to get 7 and 8 you might as well throw in 6 too.

Include those and I think this announcement would be truly stellar. If you really want to turn heads give us 6-11. Netrenderer has been delivering a service for a long time, for the increasingly less developers wanting to support IE.

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It's a plain waste of resources do think whatever means possible to provide users and developers with a browser that nobody wants to use. How about you just ONCE built something that is conforming to standards, so people do not have to switch browsers or hack code just because the somanieth crappy version of IE breaks with CSS, HTML, JavaScript of whatever thing Microsoft thought of breaking that time. I have never cried and laught so hard about the 'compatibility mode' that broke CSS compatibilty in two different ways per mode on code that was W3C complient and rendered fine in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konquerer, or any browser that no one may have heard of that is just W3C complient. Stop wasting users, developers and your own time with IE development, either make it complient or stop developing it all the way.

Developers don't want to be writing extra code just because of your arrogance and users don't want to have a bad web experience because of it.