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Now, people will have no choice but to use modern web technology - although the update is coming late enough that there's a chance the public won't even notice.

While the plugin has been losing relevance due to both its security issues and the rise of HTML5, it's been lingering on many people's PCs due to the Windows 10 bundle.

This is the effective end of Flash for many users. Google was steering Chrome users away from Flash in 2016, and rival browser makers like Apple and Mozilla took similar steps around the same time. Microsoft is relatively late to the party, we'd add. None of Microsoft's fixes will pull manual Flash installations, although that might not be an issue when Adobe stopped supporting the plugin at the end of 2020 and currently urges users to remove the add-on. The anti-Flash patch will also be included in roll-up and security updates for Windows 8.1, Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows Server 2012.Īnyone who updates to Windows 10 21H1 will automatically lose Flash, Microsoft added, and people who want to pull the built-in Flash player can already download the relevant optional patch if they haven't already installed it. The Verge reports that Microsoft now expects to completely remove the bundled version of Adobe's plugin from Windows through a cumulative update rolling out to users in July. Microsoft is finally ready to purge Flash from Windows 10 once and for all.

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