2015, the year that marks the beginning of the end for Adobe Flash – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

At a time when the newspapers indicate the major 2015 events and advance prospects for next year, The Guardian decided to celebrate a death, the Adobe Flash.

“The deaths are not usually the subject of celebrations, but there is a death that certainly will not be widely mourned: the Adobe Flash” writes The Guardian, saying in 2015 marks the beginning of the end of Adobe Flash program whose serious security flaws dictate their fate.

“Once the darling of the new interactive internet (in late 1990), allowing video, apps and attractive ads , Flash has become blistered and dangerous, loved only by hackers from the open internet, “continues Samuel Gibbs in the article of the British newspaper.

At issue is the fact that it is an unsafe program, responsible for a considerable number of cyber attacks inflicted to users. Explains the newspaper that the pirates take advantage of the program’s weaknesses for access to their personal computers, which makes this ‘plug-in’ unreliable, at a time when the search and operating systems engines are becoming safer.

On the other hand, the appearance of other tools such as HTML 5 and WebGL have allowed many of the common features of Flash be possible without recourse to this Adobe program, which incidentally several weight companies away, such as YouTube, Facebook, Google Chrome and Firefox, writes the newspaper.

Until advertisers – who were slow to abandon the tool inherited by Adobe with the acquisition of Macromedia in 2005 -. began to opt for other solutions, adds

Now it’s Adobe itself that begins to distance itself from its own product, writes The Guardian, adding that in recent years the company has worked to support HTML5 and WebGL within the Flash animation tools.

Recognizing that more than a third content created in Flash Professional is HTLM5 fact, the company decided to abandon the Flash name and call your product Adobe Animated CC.

The Guardian assumes, however, that there are still reasons to Flash continue to exist. Software systems as a service – like what is used by companies to manage historical employee, complaints and budgets – depend on Flash, for example, writes the paper, assuming that the program can continue to live on the intranet of the companies, but your path in the open Internet is approaching the end.