Adobe Is Finally Killing Flash (For Real, This Time) Hiding halfway down the company’s latest press release, like a guillotine in a crowded town square: “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash.” Boom. That’s the sound of the blade dropping, and Flash, finally, thankfully, mercifully dying. Because Adobe just killed it. It’s actually slightly more complicated than that. Adobe is working with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to put that last nail in Flash’s coffin over the course of the next three years. The Adobe statement continues, “Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.” This is great news, although hardly surprising. Flash has been dying a slow, painful, and even dangerous death for years now. As more and more developers moved to open standards like HTML5, the once-ubiquitous Adobe software started disappearing from websites left and right. Meanwhile, Flash was riddled with security concerns and became a frequent target for hackers looking for malware delivery mechanisms. Adobe just couldn’t issue security updates fast enough to keep people’s machines safe. See http://ift.tt/2gZOrL8
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