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microsoft launched modern.IE at the end of January 2013 to help ease the

pain points of developing for its browser. Today, the company says the site

has saved developers over 1 million hours testing for Internet Explorer,

especially for those who don’t use Windows and/or who need to work with

older versions of the browser.

The company explains how it got the figure: over 750,000 developers have

used the site’s virtualization tools. If you compare that to building a VM from

scratch, they have saved an average of 1 hour and 20 minutes by using pre-

configured VMs and 2 hours and 48 minutes using Browserstack. Not bad

Microsoft, not bad at all.

See also – Microsoft’s new Rethink campaign tries to convince developers and

users that Internet Explorer advances the Web and IE11 passes IE10 in

market share, Firefox slips a bit, and Chrome gains back share