Silverlight and Windows 8 RT

Anonymous
2012-12-28T00:25:01+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-12T19:29:46+00:00

    Brilliantly written and very informative. Thank you...

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-03-12T19:28:42+00:00

    Mate don't moan about it sell it and buy an ipad....

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-03-07T19:49:27+00:00

    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!

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-02-22T16:37:53+00:00

    Silverlight is dead, ok.

    Steven Sinofsky and his WinDiv team had won the battle.

    The DevDiv team had lost.

    But Steven Sinofsky has left MSFT directly after the release of Windows 8.

    The pack is reshuffled, isn't it?

    Instead of Silverlight we have HTML5/JS and XAML/C#.

    But it doesn't seem that HTML5/JS is the big winner. Who is still using it?

    On http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums are much more questions to XAML/C#.

    XAML/C# isn't Silverlight 5, but it's nearly like Silverlight 2.

    While Silverlight is based on a subset of NET/Win32, XAML/C# is based on Win8.

    XAML/C# is a rebuild on a new lightweight plattform, but XAML/C# has only the restricted functionality to build quick and dirty apps and is still far away to build maintainable, evolvable and testable applications via MVVM.

    Maybe XAML/C# will be the new Silverlight in one or two years.

    So, again:

    Yes, Silverlight is dead, but I think that we can have the hope that HTML5/JS will not have success and XAML/C# will became a Silverlight 6.

    We will have to be patient for now.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-02-22T13:58:52+00:00

    That isn't true, because HTML5/Javascript simply can't do a lot of the things that Silverilght can do,  In fact, just last fall, Google declared Javascript "fundamentally flawed" and said that if the web was going to advance a new language was needed. 

     

    I've done heavy development in both worlds.  Building a complex web-app in HTML/Javascript compared to Silverlight is like trying to build a house using nothing but a screwdriver and some duct-tape.  By the time you are done you wish you weren't even working in software development anymore.

     

     

    I don't make the tools, but I do my best to use them. Yes, Silverlight is a great plugin and writing C# code behind or MVVM is much friendlier than the web standard way, but writing code in Delphi was even easier and more productive... I really liked working with CA Visual Objects (Clipper on steroids), but so what? It doesn't matter much anymore, right?

    I think that WinRT has a different target audience than the Silverlight LOB application. The Windows 8 Desktop handles it just fine.

    I think we have settled the question here. The answer is no it doesn't run on WinRT. So freaking what?

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