While developing for the web, one has to take into account the various browsers that people use.
Depending on the kind of project and target users, this may range from an easy option focused on a single browser up to the dawnting task of supporting the most used browsers world wide.
To help in this task, Microsoft has provided a set of combinations of Windows and Internet Explorer versions in ready to use virtual machines available to all major operating systems.
You can get them here in the Modern.IE web site in the virtual tools section.