Any way to run IE6, 7 or 8 on OS X? Need help

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I work in the IT department for a small health care company that owns several nursing homes in the state of Rhode Island. Our network is based entirely on PCs ( I no, sorry sorry :Shouting:), as is our medical software. The vendor we use to outsource our medical software was programmed with Internet Explorer in mind (the app is web based).

Often we have medical physicians visit our facilities, all whom have PCs. However we have one particular doctor who has a MacBook (not sure if it's a pro). I BELIEVE it's OS X. When running the website in Safari, Opera or even Firefox, he can not access everything that he desires to complete his assessments. He NEEDS some version or IE6 or higher.

Is there anyway possible to run IE without installing the windows OS on a separate partition (VMWare or Parallels)? With a quick Google search I found an app called WineBottler. Not sure how legit it is.

Basically I am asking for any help that the wonderful Mac community can give me :D

Thanks in advance

-A frustrated Windows user
 
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IE6 is most likely the only version that can be run through WineBottler or similar scheme in some limited fashion..IE7 or IE8 will not work..

Ideally, if you were to use VirtualBox (Free VM), or VMWare, or Parallels..you'll still need a copy of Windows to run within that VM and then you can use IE6-8 or whatever the latest version is..

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ies4osx, a project designed to allow you to run IE in OS X, became WineBottler. I don't know what versions of IE WB will support but it's worth a shot.
 
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LOTRsolidsnake said:
I work in the IT department for a small health care company that owns several nursing homes in the state of Rhode Island. Our network is based entirely on PCs ( I no, sorry sorry :Shouting:), as is our medical software. The vendor we use to outsource our medical software was programmed with Internet Explorer in mind (the app is web based).

Often we have medical physicians visit our facilities, all whom have PCs. However we have one particular doctor who has a MacBook (not sure if it's a pro). I BELIEVE it's OS X. When running the website in Safari, Opera or even Firefox, he can not access everything that he desires to complete his assessments. He NEEDS some version or IE6 or higher.

Is there anyway possible to run IE without installing the windows OS on a separate partition (VMWare or Parallels)? With a quick Google search I found an app called WineBottler. Not sure how legit it is.

Basically I am asking for any help that the wonderful Mac community can give me :D

Thanks in advance

-A frustrated Windows user
Click to expand...

OMG... spent years getting way from those... First Google Chrome, then MAC now Google Chrome on MAC :)
 
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Open your Safari preferences and select to install the Develop menu. From the Develop menu: Click on "User Agent", then select IE 7 or IE 8. That will cause Safari to emulate and present itself to the page as IE.

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Does that not just identify Safari as IE7 or 8? If it does, that won't work in testing whether the page works properly in IE will it?
 

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