Microsoft reveals their plan to end of support for Adobe Flash Player from Windows 10

Microsoft revealed its plan quietly that they are now going to remove the Adobe Flash plug-in from Windows 10 starting from July 2021.

Adobe Flash already reached the end of life at the beginning of the year 2021 after being considered it as risky as many a cyber attackers were exploiting it.

Adobe announced at the part of the end of life that they would stop distributing the Flash Player and browser developers would no longer support Flash plug-ins.

In addition to this, they added that they added a kill switch to the Flash Player so as that flash content would start running from January 12^th, 2021.

Finally, after the KB4577586 optional update released, 32-bit Adobe Flash plug-in were completely removed from the Windows.

Users have to manually update to this windows version from the Microsoft Catalog. However, Microsoft stated they would distribute it through WSUS and Windows update in the future.

Microsoft also outlined how they will begin distributing the Windows 10 KB4577586 update. The company will include it in their optional Windows 10 preview cumulative updates for Windows 10 18909 and later from June, 2021. These will be released in the third and fourth weeks of the month as a part of the scheduled C releases.

For the Windows 1507 and later, they will include the update in the mandatory July 2021 patch Tuesday cumulative updates.

• Starting in June 2021, the KB4577586 “Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player” will be included in the Preview Update for Windows 10, version 1809 and above platforms. It will also be included in every subsequent Latest Cumulative Update.

• As of July 2021, the KB4577586 “Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player” will be included in the Latest Cumulative Update for Windows 10, version 1607, and Windows 10, version 1507. The KB will also be included in the Monthly Rollup, and the Security Only Update for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Embedded 8 Standard.

The KB4577586 update will automatically get installed and the Adobe Flash player plug-in be removed for those who have installed Windows 21H1, which will begin public preview this month.