However, Flash remains a popular tool among animators and it retains a significant audience in a variety of long-life Enterprise applications, video games and creative content. In the first half of 2021, Flash has also been disabled in most modern web browsers. This decline led to Adobe officially ending the support and distribution of the Flash Player. This is because of their broader compatibility across a wide range of browsers, devices, and environments to satisfy user demand and improved security. Over the last decade, Flash has gradually lost market share in interactive browser-based applications, being replaced by open web standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly. Starting from July 2021, Flash will be removed automatically by the operating system due to a non-reversible Microsoft Update. The only way left to access these applications on Windows is to keep an instance of Internet Explorer 11 or Edge in “Internet Explorer mode”. What does this mean for your Flash content and applications on Windows?Įnterprise applications, whether internal or third-party, can still often include an element of Flash which requires the Adobe Flash Player to run. Many of these applications will be based on Adobe Flash, or on Java Applets. However, a lot of older, enterprise software or websites only work with IE, making it still very widely used in the enterprise sector.Īccording to a Microsoft commissioned-survey, large companies on average use 1,678 legacy apps. Originally launched in 1995, Internet Explorer has long been surpassed by many other browsers in today’s consumer market.
However, the latest announcement will further limit how enterprise customers access content based on Adobe Flash on Windows.
Microsoft had already clarified its timeline for removing the support for Adobe Flash from Windows on the new Chromium-based Edge. At that point, the IE11 desktop application will be disabled and redirected to Microsoft Edge. In June 2022, Microsoft will be officially retiring Internet Explorer by ending mainstream support of the long-lived browser.
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