Windows Vista and Software Compatibility

I didn't like the look of Windows Vista even before I had tried it out, but

now I am forced to use it at work (I am a Web Developer and work at my boss's

home office, so I have done everything from install software to write code

with the Windows Vista machine). I have noticed that many pieces of software,

even the most recent version of some made by Microsoft (in this case, Visual

Studio 2005 and certain features of SQL Server), either wouldn't install

correctly or were not completely and correctly functional once they were

installed.

Another reason aside from software compatibility that makes me not want to

upgrade my own computer to Windows Vista includes the interface. I think the

interface is overdone I feel that Microsoft concentrated too much on the

graphical appearance and changed too much about the interface of certain

things that serve exactly the same purpose (Windows Explorer, for example). I

realize that someday I will need to upgrade my operating system to Vista

(unless Microsoft comes to it's senses and makes a different next version of

Windows with better compatibility and interface, but what are the chances of

that happening?), but I'm sure that virtually everybody has software they

currently own and don't want to purchase an upgrade for. I, for example,

don't want to pay the huge amount of money for the next version of Visual

Studio, SQL Server, and Adobe PhotoShop just so that I can use them on an

operating system I don't like, but what other choice will everyone have? I am

willing to adjust to and learn the new interface, even if I do think it is

overdone, that is just effort and time. But software incompatibility means

money for purchasing upgrades, and, depending on the software, possibly extra

time to import all your old files if the newer version of the software saves

in a different format. Microsoft claims Windows Vista has a friendlier

interface, but personally, I hate it for multiple reasons, and everyone I

have talked to that uses it hates it as well, whether they are computer

professionals like me or just common computer users.