Silverlight and Windows 8 RT

Hi all,

I'd like to say a very simple thing apart all the very technical comments. Silverlight is a program created for PCs, x86 architecture. Most of times is used for watching TV channels on internet. If you have an ipad you don't use Silverlight because if available you use the specific App, because Silverlight doesn't run with an ARM processor. The problem for the Surface users is that when you connect to a website that needs Silverlight, the website sees you have  Windows OS, it doesn't sees Silverlight installed in your OS so it offers you to download it, when you try to download it your Windows RT says that it is not possible and suggests you to visit the Store. People no so tech savvy try to look for Silverlight on the Store, they don't find it and instead of looking for the App of that specific TV channel they swear at Microsoft. The good thing for ipad is that the website understands you have an ipad and, if available, it drives you straight to the App Store to download the specific App. The procedure is so fast that many times the user does not understand he/she is using an App to watch that content and they say:" My ipad has no problem to watch content on internet, it doesn't need anything". Actually ipad is not magic, it works with apps like all the other tablets in the market, Surface included. If you would like to blame Microsoft do it, but just because they should let some websites able to recognize an RT OS and drive the user straight to the App Store like for ipad. Silverlight, unless Microsoft decides for a small revolution, will never work on an ARM platform, whatever is the tablet or the OS. People should appreciate what they can do with Surface that IOS or Android can not. Just to be clear, I am not defending Microsoft, we can talk for ages about many issues all of us we faced in years of PC use, just to be honest when they do something good like Surface that, I would like to remind, it is a TABLET and as the Apple users do not ask to install a program born for MAC on an ipad, I really hope that Microsoft users stop to ask to turn upside down a program born for a PC to have it on the Surface, which is a TABLET and it works, like all the other tablets with Apps and not with .exe.

I hope my opinion is clear and can be helpful.

Kind regards,

Easywin.

They have made it very clear that they aren't going to do that.  In fact, for the most part, Microsoft pretty much now acts like they wish Silverlight never existed in the first place., even though it is probably the best thing they have created in the past 5 years.

Short answer, no there's no way to make it work

Not unless they make an app for the Windows Store

Well I bought the surface RT to watch BT vision/lovefilm etc. Is there no way to do this on the tab? this is the main reason I bought the tab and if it doesn't do that then I don't need the tab as I have another smaller tab I use for other things.  so  if there is a simply yes/no answer to "Is there anyway to make BT vision/lovefilm to work on the Surface RT"? Thanks in advance.

I wish you have! I would never have bought it, if I knew it does not support the Silverlight, which is one of the programs I need for work.

Very disappointed :-(