WinRT is built into Windows 8, Silverlight you have to download and install. But if you're not a programmer, the underlying technology probably doesn't affect you directly and so these things don't have much to do with each other from your perspective, in terms of how you get them they are still separate. (Windows Phone apps are also based on similar technology). They are related from a programmer's perspective in that they are based on similar technology, which makes it easier for programmers who know Silverlight programming to learn Windows 8 app programming, and makes it easier to convert Silverlight apps/sites into Windows 8 apps. WinRT is different, it's not a plugin for web browsers but rather a way to make apps for Windows 8. Silverlight as a web plugin will work in IE10 on the desktop (and other desktop browsers), it does not work in the new non-desktop IE10 (which doesn't support plugins at all). And when that day comes there may be no need to install Silverlight any longer.

But there may be a time in the near future when most web sites stop using Silverlight completely and use HTML5 and WinRT instead. Users of Microsoft Silverlight gave it a rating of 4 out of 5 stars.So what you are saying is Silverlight will install on Windows 8 and of course is needed for for web sites that still use it. Microsoft Silverlight runs on the following operating systems: Android/Windows. The most prevalent version is 8.0, which is used by 57 % of all installations. It was initially added to our database on. The latest version of Microsoft Silverlight is 8.0, released on. It was checked for updates 63,177 times by the users of our client application UpdateStar during the last month. Microsoft Silverlight is a Freeware software in the category Web Development developed by Microsoft. Instead the Redmond company has debuted a number of in-house projects to push the technology, as well as tap its partners for support. Such a move would give Silverlight immediate and total access to an install base close to 1 billion users and will make it just as ubiquitous as Adobe's Flash. Microsoft revealed that it does not plan to leverage the existing Windows Update infrastructure in order to make available Silverlight to all users of the Windows operating system. And when the Redmond company said cross-platform they indeed meant it. Silverlight is essentially nothing more than Microsoft's vision of a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in designed to be the source of rich online user experiences and to dislodge Flash from its current dominant position on the market.

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