Silverlight and Windows 8 RT

5. No, I don't think it will do any good, because Microsoft has shown over the past year that they no longer have any interest in listening to their customer's concerns about anything.

It depends for what but it's often true. It's true when you discover a real bug, you get a real problem, not something you don't understand, you found a bug, you need a person, a real person to fix it Microsoft is not listening any more. They support is a joke. They send you to community forum and people that help you are just people, not real Microsoft employees with admin rights.

This is why I still believe in Apple and Google. They listen to they community.

Hello all,

same request here.

I bought Surface RT 2, knowing that the available apps are fewer as those for IOS or Android BUT I supposed at least that the basic products and frameworks from MS would have been supported.

It is the least unacceptable. I took it for granted that Silverlight was supported.

I need as well a responsible and reliable answer from Microsoft not ifbut when will it be supported.

Thank you!

They don't need to rewrite any website. They just need to do the same thing as they done for ios and android: a simple app, they can even reuse most of the code from the other ones. And that same app would work on ANY windows 8 machine, not just RT.

ps: the post you've just written is a complaint. If you spent the same effort reaching out to the companies that don't provide you with their apps, you could achieve something. This here is a dead end.

The old Microsoft (when they were much more successful) adapted their operating systems to make it easy for people to transition from the old OS to the new.  The new MS, like you, takes the opposite attitude: arrogantly assuming that it is everybody else's job to work around MS.

Lovefilm and Sky (and indeed the UK Parliament site) might legitimately wonder why they should have to rewrite their websites, which they wrote in good faith in a programming language that MS was supposedly committed to, so that they are compatible with an operating system that hardly anybody has bought.

You also forget that I have a third choice to complaining to MS or complaining to a third party: I don't complain at all and simply buy something else. That's how markets work.

I really hope you don't work for MS, for their sake!

if you keep complaining here instead of complaining to sky and lovefilm etc, you'll keep achieving nothing. Silverlight is dead, move on. want a service that uses Silverlight? ask the company for an app. that's what android users did, that's what apple users did. do the same. or buy an x86 windows tablet and run all the Silverlight applications you want. those tablets are even cheaper than the windows rt ones.