Should I leave a new Windows 7 PC, or brave upgrade to Windows 8?

I got a new PC for making development here at work.  It's a big office.  He's still in the box.  This is to replace my current Windows 7 Ultimate computer.  I wonder if it might be a good idea to upgrade to Windows 8; After all what will be published later this week.  The upgrade path, if I understand correctly, Windows 7 Ultimate is Windows 8 Pro or maybe Windows 8 Enterprise.  (I work in an Active Directory domain, even if the field is a bit old.  It's ad on Windows 2003 R2 servers.  However, perhaps that will change in the next year or two).  A big worry I did installing our applications.  We have multiple line of business applications, we wrote that must be installed.  In my local .NET, a guy from user group reported that install Windows 8 Pro, for him, was a disaster.  He had Visual Studio 2012 installed while it was a Windows 7 machine, now he can't use VS 2012.  I need to use VS 2005, VS 2008 and VS 2010, and if all goes well, we'll move to VS 2012.  And there are other applications, we need (Crystal, SQL Server Developer Edition, SQL Server Express, etc.)  I thought that would be nice, but then I heard people in my saying local group that it won't work, you need to get all apps from the store of Windows even if you run in desktop mode, because you can not install anything at all in desktop mode, etc.  I get a lot of mixed messages here and don't know who or what to believe.

First of all, they are incorrect. You don't have to install applications on the Store. It is only in the edition of RT (ARM powered tablets). With versions of Windows 8 Pro/Enterprise, the office is fully functional, and all existing applications should work with it. If it works in Windows 7, 99.99% sure it will work in Windows 8. You can install programs as you could before using the desktop computer, and they will behave as they did in Windows 7.

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