I'm reaching out for support to the content creator community with this one. Windows 10 (for some strange reason) does not support the Sony ARW files. If any of you have dealt with this issue, then you know it's frustrating and does not have an easy fix (may not have one at all). I, along with many others have gone to Sony support and downloaded the ARW driver from their website with no success. I saw somewhere that you can essentially write your own code into Windows 10 to get it to work, but let's be realistic... not gonna happen.
So I am petitioning that the content creator community (or anyone who wants to jump in this bandwagon. the more the merrier), send a flood of feedback to the Windows 10 Feedback Hub and really put some pressure on the engineers to have this update in the near future.
Just send a polite, but pointed request to have an update that includes Sony ARW files to be one of the default files supported in Windows 10.
And hey, if someone has found the solution and I'm just posting an ignorant discussion, then I will be happy to be wrong. But please post the solution so we can make it easier for the community to find and execute. Because as of now, I have searched, and searched, and searched, and have not found a solution.