RSS Newsticker and Random Mix Plugins

Hi

I've given up with my underpowered linkstation and installed LMS 7.8.1 on my Windows 8 pc.

However, 2 plugins that I really liked on my linkstation were the RSS Newsticker and Random Mix. Neither of these plugins have loaded on the windows version. Is this a known problem, or am I doing something wrong?

Both state "Plugin Failed to load"

Any help appreciated.