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Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) [10] is a discontinued [note 1] computer program for viewing multimedia content, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
That same year The New York Times began working on archiving old web content, so that readers could view webpages as they were originally published, [10] and now uses Ruffle for old Flash content. [11] Adobe started blocking the use of Flash Player versions newer than 32.0.0.371 [12] on January 12, 2021, using a kill switch. [13]
Silverlight can also be used to create Windows Sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. [ 29 ] Silverlight supports H.264 video, [ 30 ] Advanced Audio Coding , Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and MPEG Layer III (MP3) media content [ 31 ] across all supported browsers without requiring Windows Media Player , the Windows Media ...
Microsoft will completely remove Flash from Windows 10 by rolling out an update in July.
Windows Media Center is discontinued, and is uninstalled when upgrading from a previous version of Windows. [15] [12] Upgraded Windows installations with Media Center will receive the paid app Windows DVD Player free of charge for a limited, but unspecified, time. [16]
Internet Explorer 10 was first announced on April 12, 2011, at the MIX 11 conference in Las Vegas. [19] In this conference, Microsoft showcased a demo version of Internet Explorer 10. [20] On the same day, a Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 10 was released on the Microsoft Internet Explorer Test Drive website.
In tests done by Ars Technica in 2008 and 2009, Adobe Flash Player performed better on Windows than Mac OS X and Linux with the same hardware. [128] [129] Performance has later improved for the latter two, on Mac OS X with Flash Player 10.1, [130] and on Linux with Flash Player 11. [131]
Shockwave 10 Last version to support Mac OS X 10.3 and lower, and Mac OS 9. Shockwave 11 Added support for Intel-based Macs. Shockwave 12 Shockwave 12.1 It is supported by 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. It has content made from previous versions as well as Director MX 2004.