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Hi,
A friend told me that Microsoft issued an XP version that works on USB. It's minified and already has a browser included.

In fact I doubted that!, Because he told me that it was Free of Charge and that just doesn't make sense to me. Anyway that's why I came to ask you guys.

The reason I badly want that, is to use it to test my website cross-browsers. I know it's a good Idea to buy a Windows License and install it on a Virtual Machine (like VirtualBox) but I feel like I don't have to buy a full license just to open a browser!

Notes:

  • I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 as my desktop at the work, it's cool with me but because theres is no IE7, IE8 on it! And all the clients wants a cross-browser compatibility.
  • I tried to install these Images on my VirtualBox, but it just didn't work saying "Hardware changed, ... re-activate this version again. Any idea to make this work under VirtualBox/Ubuntu it's highly appreciated.

Edit: Browsershots.com is not an ideal solution since I want to my test way beyond only CSS, HTML. Since I build complete websites and Javascript enabled width Ajax and stuff like that so I need a Real Browser to interact with :(.
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Is there any Official (Free of charge) XP version for browser-compatibilty testing (like XP on USB).

Hi,
A friend told me that Microsoft issued an XP version that works on USB. It's minified and already has a browser included.

In fact I doubted that!, Because he told me that it was Free of Charge and that just doesn't make sense to me. Anyway that's why I came to ask you guys.

The reason I badly want that, is to use it to test my website cross-browsers. I know it's a good Idea to buy a Windows License and install it on a Virtual Machine (like VirtualBox) but I feel like I don't have to buy a full license just to open a browser!

Notes:

  • I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 as my desktop at the work, it's cool with me but because theres is no IE7, IE8 on it! And all the clients wants a cross-browser compatibility.
  • I tried to install these Images on my VirtualBox, but it just didn't work saying "Hardware changed, ... re-activate this version again. Any idea to make this work under VirtualBox/Ubuntu it's highly appreciated.