#Flash player for internet explorer 8 update
This problem occurs after security update 3132372 for Adobe Flash is installed on Windows 10. Resolves a problem in which Adobe Flash Player does not load correctly in applications that are running in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge and that have Flash Player embedded. In the interim, IE and Edge users in Win10 couldn't get Flash to work. 5, Microsoft released a patch called KB 3133431 that apparently fixed the problems in Windows 10. We are aware of limited application crashes that occur after this security update is installed on Windows 10.Ī week later, on Jan. That prompted Microsoft to amend its KB 3132372 article to say:
The loudest complaints came from Windows 10 users. For example, the HP Solution Center wouldn't launch. The folks at Skype responded quickly by disabling the part of Skype that was causing the crash, but others weren't so lucky. Within hours, the patch was accused of breaking Flash in many applications, including (remarkably!) Skype. As its title says, it was an "Update for vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge: December 29, 2015" for IE in Windows 8, 8.1, Server 2012, 2012 R2, Win10, and Win10 version 1511, as well as Edge in Win10 and Win10 1511.Īll hell broke loose. 29, Microsoft released KB 3132372, the last patch of 2015. With that caveat, here's what I've been able to reconstruct. It's hard to piece together a timeline for most Microsoft patches, in no small part because the official Windows Update list occasionally "forgets" to list updates and re-issues, and in part because the Internet Archive Wayback Machine rarely indexes historic copies of KB articles. It appears that Microsoft found more bugs to squash. The last buggy patch of 2015, KB 3132372, begat the first buggy patch of 2016, KB 3133431, freshly updated to version 2.