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title: Windows 8/Windows 2012 Selenium Testing | TestingBot Blog
description: |-
  Today we have added Windows 2012 (= Windows 8) VMs to our grid.
  You can now run Firefox/Chrome and IE10 tests on Windows 2012 VMs.
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# Windows 8 Selenium Testing

By [Jochen D.](https://testingbot.com/about/jochen-d)2012-11-26

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 ![windows 2012](https://testingbot.com/assets/blog/2012/11/win8.jpg "win8")

Today we have added **Windows 2012 (= Windows 8)** VMs to our grid. You can now run Firefox/Chrome and IE10 tests on Windows 2012 VMs.

To run a test on a Windows 2012 VM, you need to **use WIN8 as the platform desired capability** , see the following example:

```ruby
caps = {
  :browserName => "internet explorer",
  :version=> "10",
  :screenshot => true,
  :platform => "WIN8"
}

urlhub = "http://key:secret@hub.testingbot.com:4444/wd/hub"
client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 120
@webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, :url => urlhub, :desired_capabilities => caps, :http_client => client
@webdriver.navigate.to "http://testingbot.com/"
puts @webdriver.title
@webdriver.quit
```

The full list of all browser combinations we support: [+1500 browser combinations](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/browsers).

We've also updated the Selenium version on all VMs has been updated from 2.25.0 to 2.26.0 (most recent version), together with the most recent IEDriver and ChromeDriver versions.

Happy testing!

[← Previous post Selenium testing with Internet Explorer 10 (IE10)](https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/11/16/selenium-testing-with-internet-explorer-10-ie10) [Next post → PhantomJS on TestingBot](https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/11/30/phantomjs-headless-testing-with-selenium-webdriver-and-testingbot)

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