Sometimes, it makes sense to retire products. And if you're not making money on the product, then it can be expensive to keep supporting it. I think six months is still a reasonable amount of advanced notice. No matter what, a small minority will be unhappy.
I think the real lesson here is: don't build something serious on top of a product you don't pay for and you don't have any guarantees on support.
6 Months in the Enterprise world is a barely time enough to sneeze... Anyways I am fine, its a lesson learned.
Actually they're going to stop providing IE6/7 support and patches in a little under a year.
Doesn't matter, they already have supported it for centuries in tech years.
So Chrome Frame helped Google a bit to extend a certain market for them by a little bit. Google still doesn't get paid, but they certainly didn't do Google Frame out of altruism.
The Chrome Frame retirement announcement points them to a solution for that, Google Chrome for Business [1] with Legacy Browser Support [2].
[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/
[2] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/lbs.h...
Chrome Frame always seemed like a nasty hack which was unlikely to get much traction in companies that haven't updated from IE6.
Since they already switched from supporting IE6 to using modern technology as if IE6 didn't exist, then maybe they just won't bother switching back. Maybe it will be more cost-effective, at least for some of them, to finally ditch IE6. And that would be a win. The cancellation of Google Frame may be what is needed to break the feedback loop that keeps IE6 afloat.
With the virtual currency of trust towards Google as a competent solutions vendor.
They can't have it both ways: if everyone thought like that, nobody would have uses Chrome Frame.