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Microsoft will end Adobe Flash support for Windows 10 in July
Adobe Flash is reaching the very end of its life. The final nail in its coffin comes from Microsoft. Even after Adobe officially ended support for Flash on the very last day of 2020, Flash remains a component of Windows 10, that is until Microsoft releases the 21H1 update for Windows 10. Rollout for this update begins this month and it will remove the Flash component from the operating system.
The Verge cited this change by an update posted to the
Windows Blog. Titled the “Update on Adobe Flash Player End of support”, it outlines that a component called ‘Update for the removal of Adobe Flash Player’ will be included in Windows 10 cumulative update version 1507 starting in July. Machines on Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Embedded 8 Standard will also receive this component via its Monthly Rollup and Security Only Update.
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Microsoft had started the process of removing Adobe Flash Player from Windows 10 devices back in 2020 with the rollout of KB4577586, which was a manual update. The Windows maker is now planning to release two updates to finalize this process and eliminate Flash Player from its desktop operating system completely.
The decision to kill Flash Player was made by Adobe, Microsoft, other industry leaders back in 2017 both due to its declining usage and its increasing security concerns. Microsoft updated its blog post titled Update on Adobe Flash Player End of Support sharing its plans around the removal of Flash Player.
Microsoft force installs Windows 10 update to remove Flash Player
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Microsoft is force installing a Windows 10 update that removes the embedded 32-bit version of Adobe Flash Player from the operating system.
In October, we reported that Microsoft had released the KB4577586 optional update to remove the embedded 32-bit Flash Player from Windows and prevent it from being installed again.
32-bit Flash shown in Windows 10 Control Panel
This update was only available from the Microsoft Catalog, and once installed, could no longer be removed. This update marks an end to embedded Flash in the Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows Server operating systems.
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