Adobe says Flash Player won’t be put down officially until 2020. Adobe is enlisting the help of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Adobe says more sites are turning away from proprietary code like Flash toward open standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly. Microsoft said it has begun phasing out Flash from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer, culminating in the removal of Flash from Windows entirely by 2020. Flash Player vulnerabilities provided six of the top 10 vulnerabilities used by exploit kits in 2016.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/flash-player-is-dead-long-live-flash-player/