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May 12, 2016
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Is it impossible to get Adobe Flash updates using Windows 8.0 now?

  • May 12, 2016
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For people who cannot update Windows 8.0 to 8.1 due to various legitimate reasons, are they stuck on Adobe Flash 20?

Windows 8.0 has reached the end of life for Windows updates and it ALSO does not offer any updates beyond Adobe Flash 20,0,0,272.

Again, this is for people who cannot under any circumstances update from Win 8.0 to 8.1... So if Windows 8.1 is not an option...

Has anyone anywhere ever figure out a way to manually update Adobe Flash for IE under Windows 8.0?

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Correct answer _maria_

Hi

Since Microsoft embeds Flash Player in IE, the standalone installer does not work.  I'm not aware of any options to upgrade Flash Player for IE in Windows 8 short of upgrading to Windows 8.1 or 10.

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Maria

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jeromiec83223024
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May 17, 2016

Your available alternative is to use another web browser, like Chrome or Firefox.

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c627627Author
Inspiring
May 17, 2016

Ha. Yes.

"By forcing customers to upgrade to a newer version of IE, Microsoft demanded that users change browsers. That had a disastrous impact on IE's user share as people rethought their browser choice, and then abandoned Microsoft's browsers for rivals'..."

I wasn't aware until the other day that this very decision impacted IE's market share loss more so than anything else rival browsers did.

Personally I switched away from Internet Explorer when Firefox 0.x Beta came out but back to the thread's question.

Of course there are machines where upgrading away from Windows 8.0 is not an option for various legitimate reasons. Using IE on those machines also has a very specific purpose. I understand that users will forever be stuck on old versions of Flash on those machines and I've got to tell you I started a thread like this on another forum a few months ago, but then mysteriously... Windows 8.0 update did kick in a new Adobe Flash update after i started that thread.

So now:

This begs the question, what happens on a fresh install of Windows 8.0!?

All updates available until 8.0's End of Life are still there to be downloaded.

And which Adobe Flash version is there available for download as an update on a Fresh Install of Windows 8.0?!

Is it 20,0,0,272? Or is is the latest version?

jeromiec83223024
jeromiec83223024
Inspiring
May 18, 2016

We don't own the distribution pipeline for updates to IE and Edge, so I assume you're going to get whatever the last update Microsoft pushed was.  If Microsoft is no longer pushing updates to IE on Windows 8.0, then they're not pushing updates to the bundled Flash Player.  We don't have the ability to push updates to IE outside of Microsoft's update system for Windows 8 and higher.

From a security perspective, moving forward to a supported operating system, or backwards to a supported operating system where Flash is a distinct product (i.e. Win7) that still gets OS security updates would be the most reasonable course(s) of action.

    _maria_
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    _maria_Community ManagerCorrect answer
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    May 12, 2016

    Hi

    Since Microsoft embeds Flash Player in IE, the standalone installer does not work.  I'm not aware of any options to upgrade Flash Player for IE in Windows 8 short of upgrading to Windows 8.1 or 10.

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    Maria

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