Vista Pain Point: Software Compatibility

As much as I like Vista, what I don’t like is waiting for developers to catch up and make their applications Vista-compatible. I still can’t get ACDSee 9.0 to work on Vista, and Adobe Lightroom is crashing regularly on me when I try to edit my RAW photos (which is bizarre because it worked fine for more than a month on the same hardware, minus a video card). I filled out an Adobe tech support request and Vista isn’t even an option on their list of operating systems. Vista came out at the end of January, making it six months now since release. I have all of my hardware working, but I’m still fighting with all sorts of software issues. There’s no solution other than to grit my teeth and bear it, but I’ve gotta’ say, my jaw is getting sore. When will the pain end? When will computing feel “normal” again like it did with XP? Come on software developers, catch up…