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Ask browser users, and they’ll tell you the overwhelming reason why they can’t upgrade to a more modern, standards-compliant browser is because their work won’t let them. Ask IT departments why this is the case and they’ll point to the six- to seven-figure costs of upgrading turn-of-the-century Intranets written to work in, and only in, Internet Explorer 6. Google have provided a way for websites to opt out of IE6 (and even IE7) support without requiring enterprise-wide, Intranet-breaking browser upgrades.

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2 comments

  1. Although as one of his commenters says, those users won't have the admin rights needed to install it anyway.

    Phil Wilson - 23rd September 2009 16:38 - #

  2. I get the feeling Chrome Frame is aimed more at IT departments than end users. As an IT department, you can roll it out to your existing IE6 machines safe in the knowledge that it won't break any of your IE6-only intranet apps - and in fact will let you develop new, exciting Chrome-only apps (using all the goodness of HTML5) which will work in the same browser.

    Simon Willison - 23rd September 2009 19:10 - #

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