Adobe bidding Flash farewell in 2020

San Francisco: Adobe on Tuesday said its Flash software that served up video and online games for decades will be killed off over the next three years. The software giant said in a blog post its software, once considered a standard, was being supplanted by open standards such as HTML5 which have matured and become viable alternatives for content.

Adobe planned to stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020, and encouraged a shift to new open formats.

“Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners — including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla — Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash,” the company said.