Testing with IE6, IE7 and IE8 on VirtualBox | Shape Shed
Microsoft does not support IE8 anymore, and neither do we.
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough on how to get a browser testing suite for free on OSX or Ubuntu.
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