SKY GO - edge, IE11 and silverlight What a dogs dinner of a mess

Hi there

What a DOGS DINNER of a mess -- SKY GO is still using Silverlight for DRM - however it's deprecated in Windows so sooner or later IE11 won't work with it. Edge of course doesn't work with it, and the non Ms browsers seem randomly to work or not work.

This is NOT an Ms problem though -- surely SKY could use similar DRM / Copyright protection to NETFLIX etc - since the ANDROID application works without any problem whatsoever they must be using something other than Silverlight.

I only suspect that SKY would rather get people to sign up to their SKY Q service -- it's fine but not very portable if you want to watch on a laptop instead of on a small tablet or smart phone.

If Ms would RETIRE Silverlight completely then SKY would be forced to fix SKY GO for their customers !!!!

I suppose the words Customer and Service should probably be removed from the English Language or relegated tp a History archive as it seems with pretty well ANY service one subscribes to there is just about ZERO customer service available any more.

Cheers
jimbo

I'm not a technical guy but I feel the big problem is MS keeps changing. Moving the goalposts all the time. So we get an issue. Many services do not want to change so fast whilst MS pushes forward relentlessly. Hence we get so many problems, incompatibilities and bugs. It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. Me, personally, I don't like the change. What worked yesterday I want to working tomorrow. But I guess this is what we have here with Sky and MS.

MS has promised to support Silverlight for quite some time because there are many companies that have invested in it, and MS doesn't want to leave them out in the cold.

dencal said:

When I choose to watch SKYGO whilst in Edge it automatically transfers over to IE.....what happens if and when M$ decide to ditch IE, thus making Edge their sole O/S.

Personally picture quality on my desktop and laptop computers watching SKYGO now is HD standard compared to earlier broadcasts which then were just basic picture quality.

MS won't be ditching IE for quite some time (probably 10 or more years), because it's the only browser that supports ActiveX, which many corporations have huge investments in. This won't go away anytime soon.