[bars] Adobe Flash Player end of life was yesterday January 12

[hgcsenior at gmail.com]

Thanks for the great question Willie, you've motivated me to consider this
more deeply:

 

"Adobe" is the key word, the "Adobe" Flash Player is history.   Many folks
like Google, Apple have migrated away from Adobe already, using a variety of
competitive Flash Players.  

 

All Windows updates are always free, some "upgrades" are not. 

 

An hour ago, I updated my HP Laptop, to 20H2, the entire process took 10
minutes, runs fine, this is a contrast to the 8 hour update of my Lenovo
desktop, which is nearly new.  It now appears the Lenovo has some hardware
anomaly which I'm troubleshooting now. 

 

73 Henry - WA1VAB

 

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Subject: Re: [bars] Adobe Flash Player end of life was yesterday January 12

 

Not to be dense, but:

 

On Jan 13, 2021, at 3:28 PM, <hgcsenior at gmail.com
<mailto:hgcsenior at gmail.com> > <hgcsenior at gmail.com
<mailto:hgcsenior at gmail.com> > wrote:

Microsoft released a Flash player free OS upgrade for W10

 

Does that mean that the latest Win10 contains a Flash Player function that
doesn't cost anything, or that the latest Win10 is free of any Flash
encumbrances?

 

[I need Flash for a few hardware things that may never get upgraded, so I
need a path forward....]

 

Thanks!

 

73, Willie N1JBJ

 

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