>So how are the Lattes in Redmond,

The lattes are ubiquitous in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Once while I was riding around Oregon on my motorcycle, I realized I had arrived in the PNW when I saw a sign on a build that said, "Espresso and Bait".

>One question however, on the Tech Preview, I am working on there was not so much of a bug, but I would call a feature, where if you put command buttons, hot tracking, the ugly grey buttons would turn the color of the background. Is that feature still in ?

That feature is still in there, and it's by design.