Microsoft heard plenty of complaints about these changes. I was one of them. And it was directly at the people in charge of this stuff. Again, we got some changes that have helped (color, for example)

But VS is not designed to be a Windows Store App. I don't even know how you could use it if it were.

>So they changed the icons (not just the color or placement - they changed the damn pictures) so you have to hover over each button to see what it does. What an enhancement, eh?
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>What an improvement!! I think I'll go in and change all the icons in my applications, move them to different places, and get rid of menus, or at the very least change the menu structure and rename the menu pads.
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>But what the ??, VS2012 still has menus instead of putting everything in a full screen Metro panel. What's wrong with Microsoft??! I certainly hope they'll get rid of those darn menus and move everything to the full screen Metro interface. don't you?
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>Three cheers for consistency and improving the user experience!