? Bridge vs Organizer

Hi all
does anyone know why Adobe created this new 9.0 Organizer which doesn't do alot of the old Bridge functions ?
instead of combining the old Bridge with the new Insta-fix stuff from the Organizer 9.0 ?
thanks
david :>

Adobe has been pushing Organizer for windows for many versions now, but it used to be that organizer couldn't be easily ported to mac because it relied on a microsoft access database. Once they changed that to a cross platform dbase foundation, it becamse possible to bring organizer to mac, too. Bridge was allowed in the mac version as a kind of stopgap in between.
I prefer bridge, too, but Adobe wants you to use organizer. You can send feedback to them about it, but I would say the odds of their abandoning organizer in favor of bridge are less than nil at this point.

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