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Nope... Google might pay companies like dell and hp to sneak this baby into pre-installations. Woo. And I am sure there will be a google javascript thingy which detects IE and gives you a message about download this and supporting pages will magically run soooo much faster and look sooo much more awesome.

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That's only half the problem. The other part of the problem are the large number of companies that force their employees to use IE6 (or if they're lucky IE7), combined with the large number of in house web apps that only work with those browsers.

You can't convince admins to install IE7 if it breaks IE6 pages, but you can convince them to install Flash. This is an opt-in plug-in on the server side. It seems like there would be far less opposition to installing this by admins if Google packages and markets it correctly.

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