Wow, this is terrible news. They can push Chrome for Business, the Chrome MSI Installer, and Chrome Legacy Browser Support all they want, it's not going to change the minds of countless IT departments that still demand IE. Come spend a week here in Nashville, the healthcare mecca of the US, and you will discover that quite quickly. Sometimes you just can't fix stupid, so you have to instead find ways to get around it (e.g. Chrome Frame).
I agree. But, I am glad I didn't get my way in trying to bring this into the hospitals my software is installed in. I tried for a year or so to get some acceptance. This would be really bad for me now. But, I bet it's bad for others so I am not happy about this at all.
For us, we have hospital chains that are interested in our service (http://populr.me), but they want to use IE to create their pages. While we plan on supporting newer versions of IE in the future, it just didn't make sense for us to spend time on it yet. Several users told us they were using Chrome Frame to get around this problem, but looks like now we need to step up efforts around our browser support.
Sad news. This is why so many IT depts don't trust Google. You can spend so much time and energy trying to get something adopted in your dept, and then Google leaves you hanging.
It's good for Google short term, but I can't help but think stuff like this (and google reader shutdown) is really limiting uptake of other Google apps in businesses.
