Third - party tools like IrfanView may not be as aesthetically pleasing as Windows»
photo viewer, but they're more powerful, more flexible, and faster than the operating system's
default.
At stock config, any email links clicked on or offline will launch using the
default Windows Mail app, web links will open in Microsoft's new web browser Edge,
photos will be routed through the internal
Photo Viewer, movies and video files will open in the Video Player app, and Map requests will automatically route to Bing Maps (from within a new tab of Edge).