D.E.Bishop wrote:
... both 8 and 10 are almost proprietary, everything defaults to MS programs or sponsored programs. Learning how to use 10 is going to be a long slow process for me. ...
It's true that things default to MS programs but how else would they do it? If you try to open a picture or a video, would you prefer it to not open at all or default to opening with an MS program?
I run lots of 3rd party programs on my Win 8.1 and Win 10 (Win 7 too) computers and don't necessarily depend on the ones that MS provides. Windows has always allowed you to specify what programs open which file types.