Microsoft offers up Windows 10 VMs to give Web devs a leg up on Edge

Antón Molleda, the program manager for Microsoft's new Edge browser (formerly known as Project Spartan), announced in a blog post yesterday that the Edge developer program site is now officially launched—and now includes test virtual machines for Windows 10 and Edge alongside VMs for every version of Internet Explorer back to IE 6 on Windows XP.

The virtual machines are available in disk image formats for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux platforms, including VirtualBox, VMware, and Parallels. "By popular demand, we’ll also be supporting new formats for VMs, starting with Vagrant boxes (with VirtualBox) and QEMU," Molleda wrote.

Not yet updated is Microsoft's Azure-based testing platform, RemoteIE; the RemoteApp-based testing tool, which allows webpage experience testing from mobile devices and other operating systems, still only offers up Internet Explorer 11. Molleda said that the Edge team is "continuing to work on making Microsoft Edge available via Azure RemoteApp and will provide further updates as we make progress."