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I don't understand why Microsoft haven't created a special application servear for old IE versions. If an Enterprise could install a server which provided IE via a Remote Application window it would allow them to upgrade to the latest version of Windows.

Remote Application is already used to provide support for legacy apps, much in the same way that terminal emulators are used to access legacy mainframe systems.

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Microsoft provides free* virtual machines, each with a specific version of IE. Not quite the same thing though, but they are actually pretty cool.

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

* not sure if an enterprise can use them though.

If you go up to the main site, you'll notice there's a "free 3-month trial of BrowserStack". I think this effectively means that enterprise is fine.

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