Scott Hanselman

The download link doesn't seem to work, I've tried it from IE9 and Chrome and it doesn't do anything. Anyone else have any luck?

Is it possible to install alongside IE9 for testing purposes?

That worked - thanks! I'm really glad that Microsoft released this for W7!

@Rik - You can't install them side-by-side, unfortunately. There are some great tools to help test, though, if you only have a single machine. Check out http://www.modern.ie and there's a 3 month trial where you can try BrowserStack, which is an on-demand browser test tool, all online. It lets you spin up lots of combinations of browser/OS and there's even an API for it. Microsoft also offers free (yes, free) VMs that include the different IE versions that you can use to test your sites with, which is pretty handy. That's also at the modern.ie, specifically here: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

The link is not working for me either, tried several browsers and no luck link just refreshes page.

Thanks Scott!!! Now lets just force the update on the world TODAY!!!!!

I wish the IE team would improve the debug tools. They are vastly inferior to those in Chrome.

I also wish IE would move to an agile, incremental release strategy like every other browser. To placate nervous businesses, just have "long-term support" releases (as Firefox does).

Scott - the problem with IE tools is this: We need to support IE8, and when we get an IE8-only bug, we can only use IE8 dev tools - which aren't very helpful.

Improvements that could be made:
- Source map support

- Better way to explore objects in the JS console. (See how Chrome has collapsible nodes and can handle nested objects.)

- Better way to log objects. (See how Chrome's console.log() behaves, it allows you to explore the object, printing "[object Object]" is entirely useless.)

- Better JS console user interface (I hate the behavior of it, why is there a single line and multi line mode? It should just *work*. I don't want to think about how I'm supposed to use it. Horrible UX design.)

- Thinner header (3 lines of stuff before you get to the content of the debug tools?)

- Ability to break on DOM modification of specific elements (ala Chrome).

- "Refresh page to see messages that may have occurred"/Start capturing network traffic. Why does this all need to be explicit? I should just turn on "developer mode" in some setting somewhere and it should capture/log all this by default.

- Ability to see applied vs defined styles and how styles are overriding each other.

I posted this list on IE team blog as well.

That's great news, Scott! This will help many users see the web world much clearer.

My only biggest ever desire is fix for blurry fonts in IE10, the only thing stopping me from using IE more often...

Here is this problem's thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/font-are-blurry-in-internet-explorer-10-windows-8/95fba606-5f45-43fa-bd96-413f6d9d9ad6

Just tested the new IE10 and spotted the following so far:
1. Unable to support CSS3 rotation.
2. Unable to support CSS1 square bullet.
3. Compatible mode seemed to be worse than IE9 (it could have been rolled back to IE8).

Test Page:
http://www.malaysiatraining.net/p/training-courses.html

Bummer, VS 2008 isn't exiting debug mode when I close IE10. Been poking around looking for a fix but can't seem to find anything. :(

It great to know that IE10 has been release for Win7 but in Windows 8 IE10 is not posting data in AJAX. I also tried for Contact Manager Web API but is also not working. then i found this. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12790


Is there any fix? my client is eating me.

What about the folks still on Vista? I bought my laptop in 2008, pre-installed with Vista Home premium.

@hpcd

I don't think anybody cares about Vista any more. Visual Studio 2012 doesn't run on Vista, and the recently released C++ REST SDK supports:

• Windows 8


• Windows 7


• ... wait for it...


• Linux

Why they bothered making it cross platform and support Windows 7 but not support the architecturally-somewhat-similar Windows Vista is beyond me. (And does Windows XP lack a socket library or something?)

But going with what I said at the start, if nobody cared about Vista it's not a problem.

Maybe you should upgrade to Linux? It seems like Microsoft provides more support for it than Vista (see above).

How far down the Internet Explorer chain is considered good practice to support in current apps?

@Wojtek: the fact that you posted that as a complaint in an IE10 release announcement is, well, hilarious

I will have to say here, as web developers who have to support IEx and greater - not being able to run multiple versions at same time is a real PITA.

Here is the story: 'oh cool, a new IE 10 is out of Windows 7... oh wait, I am a developer supporting IE9, IE8, IE blah blah - guess I'll pass till the customer says 'we have to support it'

(Last time I used IE10 on Windows 8, it wouldn't scroll down the full page of 2 out of the 3 sites I went to, so I installed Chrome).

"@Rik - You can't install them side-by-side, unfortunately. There are some great tools to help test, though, if you only have a single machine. Check out http://www.modern.ie and there's a 3 month trial where you can try BrowserStack, which is an on-demand browser test tool, all online. It lets you spin up lots of combinations of browser/OS and there's even an API for it. Microsoft also offers free (yes, free) VMs that include the different IE versions that you can use to test your sites with, which is pretty handy. That's also at the modern.ie, specifically here: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
Ryan Hayes"

to run VM's every time you have to test a localhost web app for IE9, 8, 7 is a PITA. It's not dev friendly.

to offer a '3 month trial' as a substitute, I must say, BrowserStack is very ambitious and knows how to capitalize on a real lacking effort by MS to provide devs with real tools to handle all the work arounds needed to built applications on the mess left behind with IE6, 7, 8 - now we get to deal with IE10, scared thinking about that one

Hi Scott,

I'm a multi-browser user depending on the tasks I'm performing. Win 7 x64 system at home. IE is still the default system web browser. I use the latest public Firefox browser due to the particular Add-on's I run to help with technicals/blogging work. I also run ChromeDev when I have some compatibility issues with some sites. I don't really do Safari other than have it available for comparative purposes.

Anyway, was running IE9 on my Win7 system and have played with IE10 in a Win8 VM and found it pretty nice and snappy.

So when I saw all the news about IE 10 for Win7 release I jumped on it.

Followed the Exploring IE Blog notice to the download IE10 link provided which turns out to be a "beautyoftheweb" MS website.

(Note the IEBlog Site Home release notice post points instead to a different location download today "windows.microsoft" for the download source.)

From there I downloaded the offered IE10 installer file (IE10-Windows6.1-en-us.exe w/o Bing options) and ran it.

Installed and rebooted with no issues and I was up running on IE 10. Hurray!

Of course, being a geeky dude, for kicks and grins I re-ran my Windows Updates and lo and behold three post IE 10 upgrade patches were offered:

Update #1 was "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2792100)"

Update #2 was "Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems"

Update #3 was "Security Update for Internet Explorer 10 Release Candidate for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2797052)"

Reboot. Re-check. No more updates.

A version check shows IE version 10.0.9200.1651 (RTM KB27189695)

Now I know this isn't a forum for complaining about IE-10 or Windows Updating but here are my observations.

1) The IE 10 upgrade for Win 7 binary version I got and applied from the "beautyoftheweb" site download link turns out to have been file version 10.0.9200.16438. Is that important? I don't know.

2) The IE 10 upgrade for Win 7 binary version I downloaded from the "windows.microsoft" site download link turns out to have been file version 10.00.9200.16521. Is that a more important/newer IE 10 for Win 7 file? I don't know. The version number is larger.

3) I haven't seen any encouragement in any of the posts (so far) touting the go-and-get-it-now installation of IE 10 instructing "early adopters" to please check for post-install Windows Updates to make sure any new patches are applied to the system for security. While I am really, really sure that 100% of Windows users already took MS's advice and have their systems configured for "automatic check/apply/updates", just in case it would be good to do. I found three. Just saying it might be good to include in posts...

4) If I did download the IE 10 for Win 7 final release installer file (which I may not have actually succeeded in doing) what was with the three updates; one being titled "Release Preview", one being "Release Candidate" and the third being "IE 1o for Win 7 x64-based systems"?

Shouldn't I have gotten a fully updated and patched IE 10 for Win 7 binary package right of the bat?

Again, I'm not complaining (I promise) but it seems like there is inconsistency between some (or more) IE 10 for Win 7 posts pointing to the correct installer binary and this may lead to confusion for users, and maybe them not actually getting the "final" release version fo IE 10 for Win 7.

And to check for patches afterwards...just in case.

Just sayin...

Now to take it for a spin around the block with the links you provided....

Cheers!

Claus V.

...and I just noticed your updated IE 10 for Win 7 download link takes us to a third download binary.

It appears to be the "full" installer file (rather than one of the web-based "online" installer files I mentioned.

I like your link best...wish I had seen it first...it's definitely the biggest binary I've seen so far!

Problem still stands as of lots of posts for "Get IE 10 for Win 7" pointing to different MS download sources without consistency of binaries.

Cheers

Claus V.

Is it true that 10 doesnt support silverlight? We have a number of silverlight apps in production where I work that if it automatically loads 10 and removes 9, then production systems will stop working.

O.K Great but, this problem with VS 2010 SP1 still exists !!!!

Attaching the Script debugger to process '[592] iexplore.exe' on machine '037F02X825033C4' failed. A debugger is already attached.

What is the solution for this one ????

Rick, Silverlight works just fine in IE10.

Blue Screens my laptop navigating certain sites. Reason is page faults.

The first link you gave is PREVIEW VERSION!!! (At least when I go there with win7 Polish edition).When I go to IETestdrive and choose AudioExplosion demo it tells me that I don't have browser supporting MSGesture APIs, Pointer Events... When I click learn more it takes me to browser update page and when I click update it tells me that I currently have newer version. LOL Microsoft. That is pathetic. And I'm saying this being MS fanboy.

Ditto what Mohamed said. The "Attaching the Script debugger to process" is a killer for me. I am on Windows 7 and VS 2010 and have not found any acceptable workaround short of reverting back to IE 9.

I was excited to get IE 10 on my Win 7 laptop, but this is a killer for me.

Back to IE9 I go.

ASP.NET 4 sites can have trouble with the ASP.NET Web Forms ImageButton control and IE10. You can fix this issue in one of three ways.

4 options, replace ImageButton with another control ;)

I think that MS loose many many customers if that stupid Script debugger problem with IE10 and VS2010 will not be resolved soon!

As a workaround, one can install Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop - that should fix JavaScript debugging in Visual Studio 2010 as well.

Dmitri Leonov,
Visual Studio Debugger team

There is a simpler fix:
1.Close IE
2.In elevated cmd prompt run this command:
regsvr32.exe "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug\msdbg2.dll"

(or "%ProgramFiles% on a 32-bit OS)

I have tried @Dmitri simple fix. But still the error is not resolved with IE10 & VS2010 on Windows7 32-bit OS.

Error:

"Attached the Script debugger to process '[6404] iexplore.exe' on machine 'MyMachine' failed. A debugger is already attached."

I also get the script debugger error with VS2010 same as Kapil and also the jquery ajax post issue both of which are causing me serious problems. Is there a relevant MS Connect bug report I can follow or anything?

I got the same script debugger issue as well, tried couple workaround but nothing worked, i have to downgrade to IE 9.
Microsoft has put too much efforts to advertise the new IE but even couldn't make it work with it's own product (VS 2010), what a shame!

I went to the web site and clicked download, it started to download, but failed. There is a dialogue box "Internet Explorer did not finish installing- Setup can't continue because a more recent version of internet explorer is installed on your computer" And I have IE 9 in my 32-bit Windows 7 PC. Can you help me out Scott? I am really excited to see IE 10.

Duke Metterinich

I just wanted to thank you for the free Baby Smash! Keyboard game. I have been looking for something like this, and yours is better than the other 2 i found first. I would like there to be better sound. Is there a way I could put my own sounds in there if i recorded my voice or something? that would be a great function to add. I wish i knew how to program. If parents could easily insert their own pictures and sounds. If anyone knows of anything like that out there please let me know. eric.cosmopolitancleaning@gmail.com. Thanks.

I have Win 7 with automatic updates - the equivalent of SP1, but not installed as a package. When I try to download IE10, I am told I can't since I don't have SP1. If I roll everything back and install SP1, I'll lose all my other updates. Any suggestions?

In the F12 tool I do not see svg elements and paths in the DOM tree. (Win 7 64, ie10) Am I missing a setting or something?

.. I mean, I don't see any svg information beyond the svg and g tags; meaning, no path data, text fields, etc. In building animations this is critical debug information.

Also, the historic and well-documented IE z-index handling issue remains. All that equates to 3 major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) implementing a complex site perfectly but not IE. And the browser's debugger is not sophisticated enough for me to hack an IE solution to the problem.

I like Microsoft and their accomplishments. But being non-compliant makes advancing new technologies difficult especially when it's Microsoft who is the culprit. Come on, MS. You've led the way this far, what's up with not resolving some of these bugs that have been documented for years now?

After installed IE10 for Windows 7 I was unable to signin to Google Apps, e.g. google apps mail url responded with wrong (gmail) signin screen.

Google gives (an incomplete) hint: http://support.google.com/mail/answer/12343?hl=en

The following sites have to be added to trusted list:
https://www.google.com
https://mail.google.com
and
https://accounts.google.com

Hope it helps someone ...

Sorry IE10 is another bad product forced into the pipeline!

Kills Aero on some Win7 machines, rendering flaws with Flash video, can't render HTML correctly like IE9(search StackOverflow)... WOW!

Microsoft never used to have bugs this visible in a released product before, some show stoppers!

I was all primed to go back to IE as my dev browser(Chrome is now for speed), but I can't use or recommend IE10!

Win 7 was IE's big chance, since I don't know a single business that has even a passing interest in Win8!

I just keep shaking my head, what's wrong with Microsoft?

Ack.

Installed it. It killed SQL Server Management Studio, which now won't load because I need "Internet Explorer 6.0 or later".

The most important feature the IE is missing for years, are add-ins like noscript or ad-block, for firefox. And a few others, but we simply cannot use IE because we have no control on what is loaded. Noscript, ad-block and few others let the user control almost anything inside the page and inspect and block anything. So my users and clients, use firefox with add-ons.

I would like to use IE10 more. Sadly, it's terrible blurry font rendering means I'll be continuing to use other browsers instead.

I found a fix for the issue of Visual Studio 2008 not exiting debug mode after closing IE10: I just re-installed VS2008 SP1. Should have thought of that three hours ago.

HI, I have Internet Explorer 9 on my Vista computer. I guess IE10 doesn't work on Vista ? or is it that the LINK isn't working to downlaod it - something about this isn't a valid win32 application. Even when you save the program to your desk top, it's a greyed out icon that brings up the same message, even Run as Adminsitartor. What is the proper link for a 32 bit Vista system Please :-)

Rob

OMG, someone please help. what about us poor little people who can't go out and buy new equipment every time MS gets a hair and decides to force updates. This is the second time that this has happened. My hp printer no longer works and there is no driver download available. I need the printer!!!!. So, my computer says that ie 9 is still on the computer but I cannot find it. I am afraid to uninstall 10 until 9 comes back. I have gateway windows 7. Oh and by the way, I am a layman. Plain language please. thank you

IE10 is working fine for me now!

I still can't understand why no "Paste & GO" since it's there on Windows 8.