Demise Of Adobeâs Flash Tool Can Be An Opportunity For Indiaâs Software Geeks
by Anand Parthasarthy - Jan 10, 2021 05:51 AM
Adobe Flash comes to the end of its life
Snapshot
The Flash player that helps play multimedia content on web browsers has stopped working on most browsers.
All Flash content will be blocked from 12 January. The industry has moved on to a new standard â HTML5.
With lakhs of Flash-based games unplayable on user desktops, Indian ingenuity can be counted on to offer a fix.
Flash, the software tool used to display graphics and animation content on websites for a quarter century, has come to the end of its life.
When New Jersey assessed the technology it was using three years ago to power everything from state employee payroll to police dispatch, it found what one expert calls massive neglect.
Many programs were deemed high-risk because they were so old, and in other cases just a single state employee knew how to use them.
As a result, some systems were ill-equipped to handle the surge of information and demand generated by this year s double jolt of a pandemic and an economic tailspin. New Jersey s antiquated system used for unemployment couldn t keep up, and residents who lost their jobs or couldn t work waited, often desperately, for crucial support.