Enabling VC in bridge CS4

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407015.html
If you follow this link you see that acces to VC is temporarely not available.
When will this be fixed?

Thanks for your thoughts Jim,
After trying everything I gave up and moved to Lightroom which works fine and shows me the pictures
I would have preferred PS with Bridge but alas it won't
May be with a new iMac and CS5, Bridge will work again? Hopefully
greetings Daki

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