P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

Thanks Brady for backing me up.
Thanks Chris for your prompt replies .
I'm learning I need to be a politician to continue this thread.
Again, I have been using Adobe's quality products for many years, this is the first time I have found fault... That being said, I don't believe the replies given are adequate. Your saying a software provider should make demands over Operating systems? Interesting.
For those of us who are using Photoshop on PC, what are your recommendations?
A. Bridge
B. Third party software, if so what does Adobe recommend
C. Call up Microsoft... LOL

No, Photoshop removed the previews while preparing for new OS restrictions. Illustrator was busy with other things and hasn't gotten around to removing the previews and reducing their open/save dialog customization yet.

You read the sequence of events in reverse.

That doesn't make sense. Are you saying Adobe got around to integrating the previews for Illustrator, but not for Photoshop? It sounds like the technology is there to integrate the previews into the OS through the Adobe products, but the guys making the decision just decided it wasn't important enough to warrant pushing back a release date to take the time to work it into the coding. Illustrator is solid proof that you guys CAN do this, you just HAVEN'T. I'm sure everyone on this thread would feel better if you guys even admitted that it IS a problem, that it IS possible to fix, and it WILL be fixed as soon as possible, but this whole deniability thing sounds like the same dribble that Apple gives when they release a product and claim it's never their fault that some feature doesn't work or that it was intended to be that way.

In all honesty, you kind of shot yourself in the foot there Chris....by using the words "haven't gotten around to...". Makes it sound a lot less like a "can't" scenario, but rather a "won't" situation.

Because they tackled one big UI change this cycle, and haven't gotten around to planning for the next batch of things OS vendors are throwing at us.

Why does Illustrator still support the preview image?

Yes, they are new (and remember CS5 was release over 2 years ago).

These OS restriction are they new ones that were imposed by Microsoft and Apple some time after Adobe released CS5? If not complaining to Adobe seems like a proper course of action.

Where is the image thumbnail preview in the open dialog in photoshop cs6? PLEASE don't tell me it's gone! I don't know how to find the correct photoshop file without opening every single one to find the right one. I thought new versions were supposed to make our work more efficient. This is really, really bad. Please help.

As a professional graphic designer and web developer, I have to agree with the this thread of complaint... seeing simply an 'icon' and not a mini preview (Windows 7) does indeed cause me a LOT of hassle. I also agree Bridge is far too slow and clunky. and I agree that this is new to CS6 (never encountered problem before). And I agree that when trying to select a file from several hundred folders holding several thousand files, this IS a real issue to me.
A lot of agreement therefore. Yet purchasing bolt-on software to correct a CS6 issue seems the wrong way to proceed.
I would very much like an answer, please, if it is ever found!
Simon

Yes, The image preview in The File open dialogue box is Missing in windows. I miss it dearly. I dont like using bridge either and sometimes i just want to see a small preview in the open box.

PLEASE ADOBE reintroduce this function!