What is it about new versions of IE that really drew you guys back?
For me, I use the bookmark and bookmark bar sync feature of chrome extensively across my computers and devices. Plus I get support for my Linux boxes as well. So, for me it's not a hate of IE, but rather a need for features that IE simply does not provide.
Well, I used to hate on IE until 9 came out back with Windows 7. Even then, I hated it a bit because it caused me to do a superfluous reinstall of it because I didn't realizes the beta version of IE 9 was screwing with some things. But when it got running fine, I was impressed. It was faster than safari (yes, I did used to use safari but that was then) and it was faster than firefox. Simply, it was the fastest browser out there and I stuck with it. Later learned it's also the most secure...
But with IE 10, THAT'S a different story! The metro immersive version of IE 10 really drew me in. I love the full screen, immersiveness of IE 10. It's faster than 9, and still rather secure. It's just internet, no chrome, no tabs in your face, no distraction, just internet. When you need to see tabs and the address bar, just right click. I can pin sites to my Start Screen and keep them in a group, or pin them to my Favorites. Although some improvements are needed, like a better Recent list as Windows Phone's IE mobile has a better Recent history access than Windows 8, I love it! There is also the Desktop version, when I need it, but I don't usually use it.
It does seem though that the immersive version of IE is one of the complaints I've got about Windows 8, some find it a bit confusing and prefer the Desktop version...
Actually, if you utilize Windows 8 and the Start Screen and IE 10 and a Microsoft Account, you get what chrome offers and more, on Windows that is. When you pin a site to the Start Screen (when signed into a Microsoft Account), those IE tiles transfer over to the Start Screen on the other PC signed into a Microsoft Account. Not only that, search history (at least for Bing) carries over, which is definitely nice. I can do a search on a laptop for a Dell XPS 600 case, and I can go back to my desktop and go to Bing, that search is there. If I got a site on my desktop, I can go back to that laptop and type in the website address and get that specific link in the Recent history list in IE. Pretty neat.