Vista for high end image processing

As of this writing there are no completely compatible Vista drivers for high
end photo printers, no Vista drivers for monitor profiling devices, and
several independent raw converters will not run natively on Vista. I have
contacted the software publishers and device manufacturers and they are
uniformly non-committal about Vista support. This is a curious situation for
the next Microsoft OS that is supposedly two months from wide release.
Doubtless Vista updates will be forthcoming but if the software upgrades are
not issued in a timely fashion and provided gratis the Vista upgrade itself
will be poison to this particular community of users. It took me a while to
get Vista running in dual boot setting (that is another sad Microsoft story)
and now that it runs Vista is completely useless to me except for posting to
newsgroups. How is this going to change between now and February? The
outlook for Vista 64 is even more grim.