I use a lot of third-party applications and this is a deal-breaker if it is not fixed stat. I am running two systems with Win10 and it is OK but I prefer the clean interface of Win7.
From InfoWorld:
Windows 10 forced update KB 3135173 changes browser and other defaults
If you have Chrome as the default browser on your Windows 10 computer, you'd better check to make sure Microsoft didn't hijack it last week and set Edge as your new default. The same goes for any PDF viewer: A forced cumulative update also reset PDF viewing to Edge on many PCs.
Do you use IrfanView, Acdsee, Photoshop Express, or Elements? The default photo app may have been reset to -- you guessed it -- the Windows Photos app. Music? Video? Microsoft may have swooped down and changed you over to Microsoft Party apps, all in the course of last week's forced cumulative update KB 3135173
Much more at the article including a link to a registry hack to defeat this. If this was a mistake, OK. If this was intentional, a lot of people (myself included) are going to be very pissed.
One of my Win10 machines is one that I am building out for processing and printing photographs. This system uses none of the 'default' MSFT applications and if they touch my settings, it would be a matter of several hours for me to restore them to what I want. I would use Linux but several of these apps do not run well under WINE or other Windows emulation.
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