Adobe has just announced that it will be retiring it Flash Player at the end of 2020 in a historic decision that will affect many products, including the operating system Windows of Microsoft.
With Flash still widely adopted around the world, but with new, fast-paced, open standards, Adobe says it is meaningful to remove Flash Player, and it is now encouraging developers and content creators to use different applications.
While many products will be affected, Adobe states that it is working with several companies to remove the Flash Player as smoothly as possible. So the company is reportedly working with: Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Mozilla and Google.
“But as open templates such as HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured in recent years, most offer many pioneering features and functions. Plugins have become a viable alternative to online content ”, says Adobe.
"Over the years we have seen utilities evolve and become plugins and many of them have the ability to add and integrate into open Web templates. Today, most browser providers integrate plugin-enabled features directly into their browsers and leave the plugins themselves. ”
We've been expecting this new one, many times, as Flash Player is one of its most vulnerable software releases, and is used in today's modern applications, such as browsers. Adobe's decision is certainly great, especially because for the full retirement of the application it will take 8 years.
Adobe says it will continue to provide updates security for browsers and operating systems using Flash by the end of 2020.
Microsoft has already announced that it will also remove Flash from Windows and its browsers by the end of 2020, and similar steps are expected to be taken by other companies that use it. software of Adobe.
