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A year with Modern.IE

For a little over a year I've been working with Microsoft on the modern.IE site. This week the site is celebrating having saved developers one million hours in browser testing. Some of the savings come from the free pre-configured VMs with real copies of the different IE browser versions. Just about all the popular VM software is supported on several different platforms. There is no substitute for using the real browser when it comes to compatibility testing, and these VMs are one way to do just that with minimal hassle. Further time saving comes from Browserstack. It provides convenient in-browser testing of just about any type of browser or device. Modern.IE offers a free three-month membership to Browserstack for IE versions. There are Chrome and Firefox plugins that make it really easy to quickly try out your latest designs on any version of IE, even if they're served off your local computer. Very slick. Most of my work on the project was done for the online compati