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Hi,
I would like to know what the situation with Silverlight and Windows 8 RT. All the information out there seems to point to Windows 8 RT not supporting Silverlight, is this a permanent decision?
Consequently, a number of services that require Silverlight such as LOVEFILM are now inaccessible on Windows 8 RT. What is Microsoft's plan to fix this? Does Microsoft expect these services to ditch Silverlight in favour of a HTML5/Javascript?
Kind regards,
Jack Andrew
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No, Silverlight is NEVER going to run on Windows RT. Microsoft has actually killed off their own platform, thus screwing over both their developer base AND their customer base in one fell swoop. Quite an amazingly stupid move. Silverlight was one of the best things Microsoft had created in recent years, yet Microsoft destroyed it themselves.
Why they think developers will continue to trust them to build things on their platforms when they keep just killing technologies off is beyond me.
A funny thing is if you go on the Microsoft surface website and try to watch the video for the surface pro using a surface RT you can't lol it needs silverlight
The requests for answers on Silverlight support in Win RT have been ongoing for 6 months now.
Basically either whoever MS appoints to answer doesn't even know silverlights future on Win RT (if it even has any) or MS simply doesn't want to come say 'NO it's never going to be supported we've killed our own platform'.
We all know it doesn't work now the answer everyone wants to know is WILL IT!?
Steve Jobs killed Silverlight with one statement: "There will be no plugins on the iPad... The future is HTML 5..." He is laughing in his grave with Satan.
On the other hand, it works just fine on Windows 8 and should work on Surface Pro... So if a few sites need to provide support for WinRT, they already had to cross that bridge for the competitor platforms anyway. Silverlight will be supported by MS for 10 years ending in 2021 I believe... Bing it.
I spoke with one of the MS engineers about the subject and was told that Silverlight will not be supported in RT period. I took my device back to the store.
The requests for answers on Silverlight support in Win RT have been ongoing for 6 months now.
Basically either whoever MS appoints to answer doesn't even know silverlights future on Win RT (if it even has any) or MS simply doesn't want to come say 'NO it's never going to be supported we've killed our own platform'.
We all know it doesn't work now the answer everyone wants to know is WILL IT!?
