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.