Microsoft will no longer play under the bright lights of Major League Baseball, which has
decided to throw out the vendor's Silverlight browser add-on in favor of Adobe's Flash.
Major League Baseball's MLB.com Web site had been a marquee account for Microsoft, which shipped the 2.0 version of Silverlight last month and is planning the 3.0 version for delivery next year. MLB.com was a featured presenter at Microsoft's MIX conference in April 2007.
Microsoft did not do themselves any favors with the multi-day video problems that plagued MLB.com's online broadcasting at the opening of the 2008 season in April that had fans fuming.
While the snub from MLB, which will shift to Flash in 2009, is bad press for Microsoft, the company still has the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a customer. However, with MLB's experience, it sounds like even this is no slam dunk.
