Adobe has just announced it will withdraw 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 open standards being adopted at a rapid pace, Adobe says retiring Flash Player makes sense, and 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 standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured in recent years, most offer many innovative features and functions. The plugins have become a viable alternative for content on Internet", 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 have been waiting for the above news, as Flash Player is one of the most vulnerable software on the market, and is used in today's modern applications, such as browsers. Adobe's decision is certainly a big one, especially since it will take 3 years to fully retire the app.
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 using Adobe software.
