Once you make the switch from Microsoft provided Adobe Flash Player, it will be treated as any other third-party plug-in and will not receive Customer Support from Microsoft." "Inherently, Internet Explorer 11 will also allow this. This is why "Microsoft Edge will allow Adobe Flash Player to load as a plug-in via the Internet Explorer mode feature," said Microsoft. While Microsoft really wants to kill Flash, eliminating it from its Chromium-powered Edge and legacy Edge browsers, as well as its Internet Explorer 11 by the end of 2020, the company however, wants to continue support for its enterprise users who need to retain Flash for their line-of-business apps. It was so painstakingly difficult to deal with Flash that even the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was critical to Flash, saying that iOS wasn't going to support Flash.Īs Flash's death is certain, Microsoft is providing a farewell with the KB4577586 update. In the modern world of internet and mobile devices, Flash has been increasingly criticized for its performance, battery consumption, multiple security vulnerabilities, and more. It was also a common format for web games, animations, and graphical user interface (GUI) elements on web pages.Īccording to Adobe back 2013, Flash had more than 400 million out of more than 1 billion connected desktops, all of which were updated within six week of release. Originally developed by Macromedia in 1996 before Adobe acquired the company in 2005, Flash Player can run from a web browser as a browser plugin or on supported mobile devices. It allows users to view multimedia contents, executing rich internet apps, and more.
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