title: Failure to launch Internet Explorer 11 using selenium 2.47.1
body: <p>I am getting the following error when I run this code in my automation suite,</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Selenium 2.47.1</li>
  <li>Internet Explorer 11</li>
  <li>OS: Windows 8</li>
  </ul>
  
  
  
  <pre><code>WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Exception Trace:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not
    start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote
    server or browser start-up failure. Build info: version: '2.47.1',
    revision: 'unknown', time: '2015-07-30 11:02:44' System info: host: 
    os.name: 'Windows 8', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.2',
    java.version: '1.7.0_51' Driver info: driver.version:
    InternetExplorerDriver    at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:589)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:242)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:227)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:182)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:174)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:146)
    Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting
    for driver server to start. Build info: version: '2.47.1', revision:
    'unknown', time: '2015-07-30 11:02:44' System info: host:  os.name:
    'Windows 8', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.2', java.version:
    '1.7.0_51' Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver    at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:170)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:63)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:568)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:242)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:227)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:182)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:174)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:146)
    Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed
    out waiting for [<a href="http://localhost:23905/status]" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:23905/status]</a> to be available after
    20005 ms  at
    org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:104)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:167)
      ... 50 more Caused by:
    com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedTimeoutException:
    java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException     at
    com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:143)
      at
    org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:79)
      ... 51 more Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException    at
    java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:201)  at
    com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:130)
      ... 52 more</p>
  </blockquote>