Microsoft will completely remove Flash Player from Windows 10 in May update
The question of removing support for Adobe Flash Player from current systems has been discussed for several years. Many developers have gotten rid of the use of the vulnerable engine, although support for Flash remains in the bowels of Windows 10. However, the denouement is close – Microsoft promises to fix it with updates by the summer.
Modern resources are ditching the use of Adobe Flash Player in favor of an HTML5-based multimedia implementation. Firstly, it is safe, and secondly, the outdated engine takes up too much of the computer’s hardware resources.
The platform completely ceased to exist at the end of last year, when Adobe, the developer of Flash Player technology, announced the release of the latest update and called for removing everything related to this software from computers. Developers from Microsoft soon reacted to this as well.
Getting rid of the player and related libraries in the Windows system is happening in stages since the beginning of this year – Microsoft is releasing various cumulative updates in which support is removed in parts. The first to come under the knife was the branded browsers Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. More recently, the developers released a security update under the number KB4577586, which should completely rid the system of Flash Player support.
However, on April 27, the company quietly updated the update roadmap, and now, to rid the system of libraries, you need to wait for the May OS version codenamed 21H1 – a mandatory update package that also includes edits for the Adobe Flash Player.
The developers warn that after installing the update, player support will be completely excluded, including third-party solutions based on this technology will stop working. The manually installed software, of course, will not be removed, although it will lose its functionality. The company says the update will reach all users by July of this year as part of its standard distribution program.
