A Flash of Silver Light
From the New York Times: Major League Baseball and Microsoft square off on the relative virtues of Adobe’s Flash Player and Microsoft’s Silverlight in a darkly humorous exchange. Read the full story here.
Short version: After what it described as a less-than-satisfactory experience with Silverlight last year, MLB is using Flash this year. MLB official Bob Bowman, CEO of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, was quoted as saying, in part, that Adobe is
Microsoft responded with back-handed praise for the plugin that MLB uses, along with claims that Silverlight has achieved 50% market penetration and does better high-def.
Frankly, I wouldn’t know. Silverlight has achieved 0% penetration in my little world.