Silverlight and Windows 8 RT

Anyway, I apologize for pulling the thread off topic.  In answer to the original post:

1)  No you cannot run Silverlight on Windows RT

2)  No you most likely will NEVER be able to run Silverlight on Windows RT, unelss Microsoft suddenly does a complete 180 on everything they have said for the past year.  I am not holding my breath.

3)  Yes, Micrososft COULD make Silverlight run on Windows RT, but they choose not to.

4. Yes, you should complain to Microsoft about this.
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.

LOL, what a jerky comment, insinuating I was fired from Microsoft.  No, I assure you after 11 years of stock option grants from Microsoft I didn't leave because I was fired.

As for Silverlight's death effecting me, maybe if you had ever been in the position of setting the technological direction of a company and you had fought hard for a tech (in this case Silverlight) vs. all kinds of other techs, you would understand.  I've got a CEO asking me WTF happened with Silverlight and I still don't have an answer for him other than "We can no longer trust Microsoft to have our back".   The CEO of the company based a whole series of decisions around going exclusively web-based because of the capabilities of Silverlight that he is now having to revisit because he sees Microsoft putting out devices like the Windows RT tablets that can't run it.   And that has him scratching his head, rightfully so.

I stuck my neck out and fought to use Microsoft tech instead of a whole bunch of competing techs and all it did in the long run was damage my personal reputation.  Why should I ever do it again?

Well, if you had taken 10 seconds to look, you would have noticed that I've been registered in the Microsoft forums for almost 7 years.  I would have been involved longer except that before that I actually worked at the company and therefore didn't post publically in the forums.

 

I'm sure reporting my post will certainly help the people trying to run Silverlight on their Windows RT devices. 

I think all of the ranting and raving just won't change a thing, Jamie. I don't know you or what you have personally invested in this technology, but I have been using different database development tools when Microsoft wasn't ready for prime time ('80's, '90's for instance). All of those technologies were either abandoned or marginalized. I finally drank the Redmond Kool-Aid(tm) and developed an application in Silverlight from the '09 PDC because my boss was told that was the way to go. I had to shift gears from wanting to pursue ASP.NET with MVC because he didn't want to go there.

If you look at the WPF and Silverlight (WPF/e) world, it is developed enough to get a LOB app out there. If you don't like the fact that Silverlight has lost its development cycle, then port to WPF or move forward to XAML and C#, or C++, or HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (the latter being termed web-standard development).

Learn to adapt to an ever-changing climate in this field, or you will just exasperate yourself and end up getting (or giving) ulcers. It's not worth it.

So, what will you do? Go to Adobe? Oracle (JAVA)? Google (Linux rip off and JAVA)? (Cr)Apple (He)X-Code?

I'm curious... How damaged are you by Microsoft's sunset of Silverlight? Really... Are you that negatively affected by this?

These days just about every move they make is compared to either Vista or the Kin phone. Hasn't Apple made their fair share of mistakes? What about the LISA? How about the Apple III? Google just gets away with what they do because they're lining the pockets of the current administration.

Why DID you leave Microsoft? Was it voluntary?

Well, if you had taken 10 seconds to look, you would have noticed that I've been registered in the Microsoft forums for almost 7 years.  I would have been involved longer except that before that I actually worked at the company and therefore didn't post publically in the forums.

I'm sure reporting my post will certainly help the people trying to run Silverlight on their Windows RT devices.

That's very helpful too! 

Maybe the 'Reporting' will help highlight the issue, because the silence has been deafening on the issue from Microsoft!