Adobe Kills Flash Player

Adobe has just announced that it would be retiring Flash Player at the end of 2020 in a historical decision that would impact a long number of products, including Microsoft’s own Windows operating system.

With Flash still widely adopted across the world, but with open standards growing up in usage at a fast pace, Adobe says that it just makes sense to retire Flash Player, with the company now encouraging content creators to make the switch to alternative solutions.

Though several products would be impacted, Adobe says that it’s working together with partners to make the demise of Flash Player as smooth as possible, including with Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Mozilla, and Google.

“But as open standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured over the past several years, most now provide many of the capabilities and functionalities that plugins pioneered and have become a viable alternative for content on the web,” Adobe explains.

“Over time, we’ve seen helpe...