Silverlight and Windows 8 RT

I can't believe Microsoft's Silverlight is not supported on Microsoft's Windows RT. It is a joke that Lovefilm works on an Apple iPad and not on Windows RT. Lovefilm, Blinkbox and Clubcard TV use Silverlight and I can't view any films. So much for a multimedia tablet. I am going to return my RT tablet too! What a joke!

Almost a year later and I too find it incredible.  Lovefilm still doesn't work on Windows RT.  There are many other platforms such as the Parliament channel that you can't use. Microsoft show their new platforms like Windows 8 Metro and RT no love and Microsoft arrogantly expect their customers to fit around them rather than the other way around.  Then MS wonders why nobody buys its new software.  Unbelievable!

Hopefully with the departure of Sinofski and now Ballmer, they might start listening to customers again. Silverlight is a good platform and it's no good replacing it with some theoretical HTML/Java language that not only doesn't properly exist yet, it might well never exist because it's incapable of doing what its proponents claim.  We could also do without people like HAL_2010 claiming that the absence of Silverlight and other core functionality is all ok or to be expected, when it clearly isn't.

The answer is NO, RT is nor able to use Silverlight.  I noticed the moderator dodged the question and gave you a longwinded answer. Buried inside an article that didn't really answer your question. 

The answer lies with Kate-PC below. Only if moderators would answer yes/no questions with a yes or no... sigh. 😡

A year has past and still no update. Booooooooo.

Nokia Lumia 2520

No, they AREN"T listening.  They have made it 100% clear that as an organization they have pretty much abandoned Silverlight outside of supporting what is already released, and they have no intention of bringing it to any new platforms, including Windows RT. 

If you need to run Silverlight on your tablet, you're going to need to buy a different tablet that runs full Windows 8, not Windows RT.   The situation really sucks, but it is what it is.  Microsoft seems to have no intention of fixing it.

Silverlight is also required for testout.com a site used by colleges for tech courses.  Ironically, Microsoft cert courses.  It would be nice to use my new Nokia tablet to study but RT 8.1 doesn't support Silverlight.  Microsoft / Nokia are you listening?

Hi Jack,

 

Welcome to Microsoft Community. It looks like you want to know the Microsoft Silverlight is compatible with Windows RT.

 

Windows 8 Silverlight is compatible with the desktop version of IE but not with the IE 10 app.

So how come it isn't possible to install it on either version on my Surface? One exam board I work with just converted from a marking program to an online marking system based on Silverlight so people could use mobile devices. Shame it won't work :(