>There have been lots of VS11 complaints to MS about it. They are very much aware of the color (lack of) issues. BTW, its the same designer they had for VS2010, so no one was fired or needs to be rehired. I told him directly, "It looks like every Java app I've ever used."

That is a good description of it.

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>As for their reasoning, I've heard, directly from the design team, and still don't understand why they did it, so I can't put their spin on it.
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>>I'm working for Sony now. Doing Metro "discovery" - meaning figuring out what we can do with it, which isn't much.
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>>Watch this vid: http://www.techolo.com/2012/03/how-real-people-will-use-windows-8.html. Hopefully someone with some common sense at MS will watch it also.
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>>Aside from the horrific ui, WPF is considerably different. More like Silverlight. There's so much you can't do that I'm amazed that MS would actually try to sell this.
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>>Craig said "I'm using Win8 every day and spend all my time working in desktop mode. I hardly ever see Metro.". That's the general concensus. Everyone from the junior dev's to the CIO hate is thoroughly. I predict that when this is actualy launched, you'll see damn near everyone turn off the Metro and work in Desktop mode. Even more, I bet many people will not even bother to upgrade.
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>>Add to that, to get apps onto your PC you have to go through the app store. I mean, REALLY??? What about those of us that support clients? Are my clients now going to be forced to go through the app store when I update them? Again, no one in their right mind would run enterprise apps on Win 8.
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>>Also, have you seen VS 2011??? I mean, WTF??? Are we going back to battleship gray now? EVERYTHING is gray on gray. The whole damn thing looks like it's disabled. I don't know who fired the designer on the VS team at MS, but they need to rehire that guy. This this is HORRIBLE.
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>>I for sure won't upgrade my PC's.
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>>To Microsoft: HUGE MISTAKE
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>>SET RANT OFF
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