P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

That may be true, but when I launch PS cs5 and can look at the thumbnail, I can't help but wonder where the problem is. What is the rational/programatic reason for leaving this out. It honestly looks and acts like a mistake. It renders PS CS6 HIGHLY cumbersome. Bridge sucks and always has. So, perhaps Adobe should provide a codec for Windows to generate thumbnails and then at least we could use thumbnail view instead of detail view with a (previously available) preview.

Any condescension is something that you read into my comments. I'm just providing you with the facts.

We have to live within the limitations and guidelines from the OS vendors.
This is one of those limitations.

It is condescending remarks like this that have so many people upset with you. Does no one at Adobe care when an issue as basic as this has so many customers upset? At the very least you should be working on a software patch for CS6 that will take care of this. You have hundreds, maybe thousands, of expert programmers that create many hard to believe effects, yet you can't include the software to view jpgs and pdfs in your very expensive program. Of course you don't even include a manual anymore either, why should we expect good service. Most of us won't even upgrade to Windows 8 for a year, you could have left it alone until CS7- and given us fair warning.

No additional software is required. If you want to see thumbnails, and your OS does not provide thumbnails, then you may need additional software to fill that gap in your OS capabilities.

And Microsoft is one of the OS vendors that told us we should stop modifying the open/save dialogs so much. Yes, they are delighted that we are taking steps to follow their guidelines.

Same problem here. Fix it!. Very annoying!

So, all Windows users now require a third party (fastpictureviewer) in order to run Adobe software properly? (this being a problem that Adobe cannot solve themselves)
What sort of message to the public is that? Microsoft must be absolutely delighted with this piece of news!

I really (REALLY) don't like Bridge for much of anything. It's slow. It's cumbersome. It's a resource hog. And regardless, showing a thumbnail preview of a selected file is all I need when using the Open dialog. This was a really really bad move guys...

I couldn't agree more! FIX IT NOW!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Chris,
Hate to be in your shoes :)

So Basically Adobe is half way through preparing OS restrictions for Windows 8 / MAC OS (Illustrator will follow suite...so we will have the same problem there as well)

It would be very helpful for Adobe to invite a rep from Microsoft to this thread...

So in order to view thumbnails of Photoshop files IN LIST/ DETAILS VIEW, we cannot open from inside Photoshop, we need to purchase third party software such as. www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/ and open from explorer.
Is there any other way (LIST/ DETAILS VIEW) ?

Your question doesn't make sense. The OS vendors said that they're locking down security and forcing application developers to make some changes -- and one of those changes will require us to simplify our open/save dialogs.

I'd recommend B or C (why the functionality isn't already part of the OS, I don't know).
I don't have a specific recommendation for Explorer extensions to create/show thumbnails.
And option A is still viable, if indirect.