Microsoft prods XP users to upgrade Flash Player


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Flash Player bundled with Windows XP is buggy, admits company

By Gregg Keizer January 12, 2010 03:55 PM ET Computerworld - Microsoft today confirmed that the version of Flash bundled with Windows XP contains multiple bugs, and urged customers to upgrade to a newer edition of the multimedia player plug-in. In a security advisory issued alongside a one-patch update for the month, Microsoft acknowledged that Flash Player 6 contains numerous vulnerabilities. Flash Player 6 is the version of Adobe's software that Microsoft includes in Windows XP, even in the copies it continues to sell to computer makers, who offer the eight-year-old operating system on netbooks, notebooks and some desktop PCs.

Adobe discontinued security support for Flash Player 6 in 2006.

More details at computerworld - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9144081/Microsoft_prods_XP_users_to_upgrade_Flash_Player?taxonomyId=85

The current version of Flash Player is 10.0.42.34, which can be downloaded from Adobe's site. - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

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