Visual Studio 11, the UI changes don't matter...

The best thing about Visual Studio 11 is that it doesn’t matter if you like the new style IDE or not. The project files are, at last, backwards compatible, so you can load them in Visual Studio 2010 and build with the new tool chain even though you ignore the new IDE - if that’s what you want to do.

I don’t like the new icons, but I find I can work fine in the IDE as long as I don’t think about it too much… Probably pretty much like how I felt about all previous versions when they were at the beta stage…