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I would have thought the popularity of IE6 is not because of an advanced business features that Chrome can compete on, but is instead due to legacy OS, and legacy web applications that only work on IE6.

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Some businesses are also using IE6 as a kind of a filtering system. For example, if Facebook Chat doesn't work on IE6, they only consider that positive.

Even if you're right and some companies do count this as a plus, I wouldn't touch that company with a ten foot pole. Why would anyone subject themselves to such extremist oligarchy in which you are forbidden from doing mostly anything that doesn't fit within some random business rules?

An "IE6 compatibility mode" for Chrome anyone? That would be the last hurdle for corporate adoption. Now that's what I call "low barrier of entry"!

Interesting... an opt-out-per-site rather than opt-in-per-site version of Chrome Frame.

An "IE6 compatibility mode" for Chrome anyone?

Easy, all you have to do is reproduce the entireity of IE6 in Chrome. Every little undocumended feature, quirk and difference. And it's all a black box cause IE6 is closed source. Good luck with that. :P

Couldn't they just use something like the IE tab extension (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hehijbfgiekmjfkf...)

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