On Vista and 7 in the least, once you upgrade your version of Internet Explorer to the latest, in this case, currently being IE8, you then lose the capability to have any other version installed. Sure, people have hacked it for XP to install previous versions such as IE5.5 and 6, but it doesn't answer the problem for all.
An alternative is browsershots, however anyone trying that will know that there is a lot of unticking boxes to specify what you want your site tested in, and also, it takes a long time to get the browser shots back. Sometimes, they don't come back at all!
Enter a great application I've found: IETester. Using the new Microsoft Ribbon style for the user interface, it allows you to view any site, through the eyes of IE 5.5, 6, 7, 8. You simply open a tab in whichever version you prefer and type in the address. Perfect.
*Although on testing in IE6 etc you then open up a whole new can of worms - IE's poor conformance to standards.
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