This is because Sky Go requires a plugin called Microsoft Silverlight in order to work, and Google recently stopped supporting Silverlight as a way of displaying online interactive content, switching to the far more popular HTML 5.Īs a result, Sky Go no longer works in the desktop version of the Chrome browser.
But not – or at least not any more – if you’re one of the millions of people who use Chrome, Google’s hugely popular web browser. If you have a Sky TV subscription, you’re automatically given access to its on-demand service Sky Go, which allows you to watch programmes on a smartphone, tablet, desktop PC or laptop.
