RIP: Microsoft To Fully Remove Adobe Flash From Windows 10 In July

Microsoft in an update to its blog postย announced that it will be completely removing Adobe Flash Player as a component of Windows 10 starting in July.

For those unaware, back in July 2017, Microsoft, along with Adobe and their industry technology partners,ย had announcedย that Adobe Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 31, 2020.

The decision to end support for Flash Player was made by Adobe due to the diminished usage of the technology and the availability of better, more secure options such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly.

As a result, Microsoft had decided to end support for Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Edge (both the new Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Edge Legacy) and Internet Explorer 11 at the end of 2020.

โ€œTo help keep our customers secure, Microsoft will remove the Flash component from Windows through the KB4577586,โ€ notes the update to a previous Microsoft blog post. In other words, once the KB4577586 update releasesย on the public channel, it will remove Flash from Windows 10.

According to Microsoft, the KB4577586 โ€œUpdate for Removal of Adobe Flash Playerโ€ will be included in the Preview Update for Windows 10, version 1809, and above platforms, starting in June 2021.

It will also be included in every subsequent Latest Cumulative Update.

Further, the KB4577586 โ€œUpdate for Removal of Adobe Flash Playerโ€ will be included in the Latest Cumulative Update for Windows 10, version 1607, and Windows 10, version 1507, starting in July 2021.

The KB update will also be included in the Monthly Rollup and the Security Only Update for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Embedded 8 Standard. ย 

Additionally, please note that updating to Windows 10, versionย 21H1 orย later will also remove Flash Player. For more information on Windows 10, versionย 21H1, you can click here.

You can alsoย remove Flashย Player manually anytime by deploying KB4577586, which is available on theย Catalog.

However,ย aย support page for the updateย notes that if you have installed Adobe Flash Player manually from another source, it will not be removed.

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