When you launch Internet Explorer from the Remote client app, a real preview version of the browser opens into a new window on your operating system, much like any other app you might have running. The Remote client app is a small utility program that allows you to access Microsoft apps from the cloud. If you don't want to install VM image, try RemoteIE. You do need to have either Virtual Box, VMware or Vagrant to install the VM image. You can get the virtual machines image to test Edge as well as IE6 to IE11 on all platforms Mac, Linux and Windows. If you are on Mac or Linux, you can use the following tools to test Edge for free: