Microsoft Announces Update KB4577586 to Remove Flash Player from Windows May 4, 2021 13:25 GMT
The update will go live as a preview in June
Microsoft has announced a new Windows update whose purpose is to completely remove Flash Player from Windows, therefore abandoning Adobe’s software once and for all.
Adobe has already dropped support for Flash Player back in January, and all browsers have ditched this component as well, with Microsoft now getting ready to give up on this software as well.
To do the whole thing, Microsoft has announced a dedicated Windows update that would first land as a preview in June and then be shipped to all production devices a month later.
Adobe Flash will be removed from Windows 10 by July 2021.
Microsoft outlines the update process that will remove Flash in a blog post.
Older versions of Windows will have Flash removed as well, including Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012.
The impending death of Adobe Flash on Windows 10 has been known for some time. Microsoft started removing Flash Player from its Edge browser last year. Adobe Flash reached its end of support on December 31, 2020. Soon, it will be removed from Windows through an update. An updated blog post by Microsoft spells out when the upcoming Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player will roll out.
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The Patch Tuesday security update due in July should hammer the last nail in the coffin of Adobe Flash Player
Microsoft has updated its roadmap for eliminating Adobe Flash Player from the Windows 10 operating system. Starting in July, the removal of the piece of software that has helped shape the internet will become a mandatory part of the Windows 10 update cycle.
In an update to its Flash Player End of Support blog, the Redmond tech titan explained the process behind the rollout of the KB4577586 Windows update that will remove Adobe Flash Player as a component of Windows-powered devices, unless the users will uninstall it themselves.
Adobe Flash Will Finally Be Removed From Windows 10 in July
It s definitely going to disappear this time, no really. By Matthew Humphries
May 4, 2021, 7:28 p.m.
Adobe s Flash Player reached the end of its life as 2020 came to a close, but the software continues to linger on Windows machines around the world. However, Microsoft has a plan, and intends to rid Windows 10 of Flash forever no later than July.
You may remember Microsoft attempted to remove the Flash Player from Windows 10 back in October last year, but ultimately failed to do so. The Windows update released to carry out the removal didn t check to see if Flash had been installed using Adobe s standalone installer, meaning if you have ever installed Flash Player manually, it remains on your system. Now in an update to a Windows Blog post, Microsoft program manager Suchithra Gopinath has detailed a new plan.
Microsoft is ramping up efforts to forcibly remove Flash from Windows with KB4577586 update
The software blight and security nightmare that is Flash has all but died. In theory it is dead already, with support for Adobe Flash Player having drawn to an end last year and Microsoft having pushed out an update to carve it out of Windows.
But the company has realized that there are a lot of systems out there that still have the cancerous software installed, and starting next month it will ramp up its effort to kill it off once and for all. This means that more people will be receiving the KB4577586 update.