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OK,so i am totally confused after reading all the posts here plus my own google search. Should i be installing this silverlight kb4481252 patch because it is a security patch that is needed?
or Don’t install it because it is for correcting the ‘DateTime calculations to handle new eras in the Japanese calendar” issue as it does say in windows update/more information for kb4481252?
I do have silverlight installed on my system with windows 7, ie11.
Thanks guys
Do you need Silverlight? If not, then uninstall it and hide it along with all the earlier versions.
So with a bit more digging i found the English version of the German article that some here have refered to… and i think i shall be hiding this patch!!
Silverlight Update KB4481252 Posted on 2019-01-17 by guenni
Microsoft has released update KB4481252 for Silverlight on January 15, 2019. Here is some information about what you should know.
Update KB4481252 is classified by Microsoft as important, but I rank it in the category ‘totally superfluous’. On the one hand, the whole thing refers to the unfortunate Silverlight from Microsoft, whose updates have simply been annoying people for years. Secondly, this update is useless for most blog readers. According to the KB article, the update fixes the following:
This update for Microsoft Silverlight fixes the DateTime calculations to handle new eras in the Japanese calendar.
It is once again Microsoft’s famous attempt to update the changes in the Japanese calendar’s time calculation for 2019.
The background is that with the abdication of the current Japanese emperor Akihito on 30.4.2019, a new calendar calculation in Japan begins (see my German article in my Japan blog).
Addendum: Some mention that the update should re-enabling streaming in IE 11 (for Netflix for instance). My problem: Microsoft doesn’t mention a streaming fix for Silverlight within its KB article. When I was searching the web I couldn’t find anything about IE 11 Silverlight support through the update. So keep the info in mind, but for me it isn’t confirmed yet.
Patching issues
In Office 2010, Microsoft has already tried the calendar update several times without success and even had to withdraw updates. Now Silverlight is supposed to be upgraded for the new calendar with the above date. But why one has to patch Windows, Office and also Silverlight, to support a new japanese area, isn’t clear to me. I would suggest to hide the update (I did it here), if you don’t need the japanese calandar.
I’ll just add this one to all the other Silverlight update patches I’ve hidden in the past (with no adverse effect whatsoever)…
Hope this helps…
Who on this planet actually uses Silverlight? Silverlight was MS’s attempt, starting years ago, to try to usurp Adobe Flash Player. As far as I am aware, there are only a few government web sites which actually use Silverlight. Other than that, I have never encountered the need to have Silverlight installed on my computer when going to any other type of web site.
The upshot is that Silverlight is not needed, and is nothing more than a potential security hole. Get rid of it. If you ever do need it for anything in government work, then install it. If you have absolutely never used Silverlight, then please uninstall it and always hide it in your Windows Updates.
GoneToPlaid: Who still uses Silverlight?
Answer: as I have mentioned before, people who have Windows 7 and use IE11 to stream video from Netflix, because IE 11 for Win 7 does not implement a native HTLM5 video viewer. (IE 11 for 8.1 does, and there is a story to that.)
A better question: who has Windows 7 and uses IE 11 to stream video?
Answer: not me. I use FF, WF or Chrome, as the spirit moves me, or the demands of sites that do not like one or more of those, but like at least one of them.
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