Spectacular Fail!

Step 1.  Install “Windows XP Mode” using Microsoft Virtual PC on Microsoft Windows 7.

Step 2. Windows XP warns that there is no anti-virus program installed.  Use the supplied Internet Explorer 6 to try to download Microsoft Security Essentials.  Browsing to the page fails.   I happen to know that this is a manifestation of a browser incompatibility.

Step 3. Use the Bing search box on the default home page of Internet Explorer 6 to search for “Internet Explorer 9”.   You have to scroll down a long way before finding a real Microsoft link: who knows how much Malware the earlier links would serve up?!

Words fail me, really.

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  1. Postscript: it transpires that IE9 doesn’t work on WinXP. Microsoft offers IE8 instead.