San Francisco - Major League Baseball Advanced Media announced that it has abandoned Microsoft's (NASD: MSFT) Silverlight video distribution platform and signed a two-year deal to instead use Adobe's (NASD: ADBE) Flash for its live and on-demand video offerings on MLB.com. The site will also provide an application built using Adobe AIR, that will provide additional features outside the Web browser.

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